Sentence examples for bereft there from inspiring English sources

If both buyers and sellers are a little bereft — there has not been a single significant purchase of feature film in the first five days of the festival — everyone else seemed more than happy to see little movies that may not end up being seen anywhere else.

Doe-eyed, curvy and carmine-lipped, she lamented in her 1929 autobiography that classic Victorian beauties had been overtaken by a succession of "lovely nymphs", leaving the British stage bereft: "There is none of the languid grace or warm beauty of 1900".

Turning one's back on all that leaves you bereft, and there are countless bereft Catholic and formerly Catholic women out there.

At the end of 838 blinding, high-octane pages, I was bereft that there weren't 838 more.

I do feel kind of bereft if there are no mirrors.

People were bereft to think there would be no more stories about Mamaw and her beloved granddaughters - Dora, Carson and Harper.

But if we accept this ontological conclusion then we must also accept that, given that mathematics are bereft of subjectivity, there must be a fundamental element of objectivity in our subjective perceptions too.

Is there not something there for bereft Pietersen fans – and indeed those who wish he had stayed South African?

It's there that, bereft of cockpit, she'll, as she puts it, "go to war".

Agahozo Shalom was created by Anne Heyman, who was raised in South Africa and worked in New York as an assistant district attorney, after she heard Rwanda described in a 2005 lecture as being bereft of hope because there was no systematic way to take care of orphans.

"He is educated, has possibilities, has money, has all the things you're supposed to want, but there is something bereft about life choices and moral responsibility".