Under these circumstances it's easy to believe the old story in which Dietrich, standing bereft on a soundstage, pleaded into an open mike, "Joe, where are you?" Sternberg, cured of his Old World illusions, eventually returned to Dietrich and Paramount for two final masterworks, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) and "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).
Trump and his bigotry-spewing advisors have been revealed to be what they tragically are; wretchedly bereft, on an international scale, of these very same democratic ideals of national virtue.
Merkel is right to think euro zone 2.0 but morally bereft on Europe, an anti-Delors.
Duka said that his Muslim faith was giving him comfort, though he worried about the impact on his family, bereft of a husband, father and breadwinner.
New Labour's contempt for thinking political activism left the party without real presence, it left it bereft of a social base, dependent on pimps and rich procurers.
Bereft of a clearcut hero.
Laurent Blanc, a man who knows how it feels to be bereft on World Cup final day and a former team-mate of the Brazilian at Barcelona and Internazionale, interpreted it as a liberating moment for Ronaldo: 'I've seen him in his best period of glory when the things he could do were supernatural.
Nobody frets about being lonely, abandoned, heartbroken, alienated, or bereft on Halloween.
At 10.30am, the sleep-bereft Martin jumped on a plane with Norwich majority shareholder Delia Smith, arriving back in Liverpool just in time for the match.
That intimacy should develop between female warders and their prisoners is not surprising, nor is the reversal of roles after a prisoner is discharged and the bereft warder must stay on, a captive of the institution that employs her.
Unlike the other statues on the monument, stonemasons carved Canada Bereft from a single 30 tonne block of stone.
