Sentence examples for bereft of understanding from inspiring English sources

When the wine had got into his head he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.

Carl Safina, in Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015), approvingly quotes Voltaire on Descartes: "What a pitiful, what a sorry thing to have said that animals are machines bereft of understanding and feeling".

Failure of understanding.

Those words – bereft of historical understanding – brought to mind a passage from Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, a book for our times, published posthumously in 1942 after Zweig's suicide.

"That is absolutely bereft of any fundamental understanding of the global automotive industry," Mr. Martin said.

Bereft of answers, denied understanding, loved ones are sucked into a wretched, endless distress from which there is no escape.

When I reached out to CCA for comment via email, the company categorically dismissed my sources as "deeply flawed" and bereft of a "basic understanding of government contracting, corrections management, or inmate programming".

So the public is bereft in its understanding of some of the good things".

Nor should one suppose that this Augustinian understanding of limited election is totally bereft of contemporary defenders.

Unfortunately, many groups like the Tea Party are bereft of intellectuals; instead, they are filled with those who have no understanding of how government works.

Still a child, bereft of everything comforting and familiar, Aron is overwhelmed in the midst of events far beyond his understanding, as the once-powerful Korczak attempts to stave off Nazi attention from his orphanage for as long as possible.