At Alexander McQueen, bereft since the suicide of the designer in February, the parent company Gucci Group announced his successor as Sarah Burton, his loyal deputy since 1996.
Tillie and her husband, Max, then 50, had been utterly bereft since their only son, Calvin, died in a military plane crash over Italy 11 months earlier.
Online poker pro sitting idle in Sin City Jump to media player Online gamblers have been bereft since poker websites were banned in the US last year, although some die-hards are heading to Mexico or Canada to play.
Not in this wise, unhappy lover, Return to the furrows, farmer, return to the plow, Where is she to go now, the sad and bereft, Now since I know that summer is come back Joseph had a colored coat that his father made him,.
Graham Chapman, alas, has been bereft of life since 1989; his truancy is not as serious a problem as John Lennon's missing out on "The Beatles Anthology," but is considerably more consequential than the absence of Bill Wyman in "According to the Rolling Stones".
Every socialist, active trade unionist and progressive campaigner of the last 60 years or more will be bereft this morning, since their lives will have been entwined with Tony Benn's.
All Orozco's works are deeply informed by historical precedent — a feature that thrills scholars of contemporary art, who have been bereft of viable heroes since the heyday of critical theory, in the nineteen-eighties, spawned waves of eagerly abstruse artists who would prove as disheartening to their mentors as to most everybody else.
According to early Vedāntins, the real is bereft of all character since its nature is non-differentiated consciousness or Brahman.
Having thus succeeded in a century-long quest, however, Japan's leaders--and Japanese society as a whole--have since been bereft of any new 'vision' to impel, lead, and inspire the country forward.
It could be that its demanding academic standards scare off the top prospects, but save for the occasional David Bailey, Loyola's roster has been mostly bereft of Chicago-area talent since Alfredrick Hughes led the Ramblers to their last N.C.A.A. tournament appearance in 1985.
The possibility has long loomed that the Chargers might move to Los Angeles, a much larger, more lucrative market, one bereft of an NFL team since the Rams and Raiders departed after the 1994 season.
