Sentence examples for completely bereft from inspiring English sources

The first half of the film is almost completely bereft of anything approaching action.

Unlike the Madoff scandal, Kreuger's downfall didn't leave investors completely bereft.

The military is not completely bereft of high-tech ground vehicles that can assist in warfare.

It's not as if magazines are completely bereft, or that reimagining them is beside the point.

However, this doesn't detract from the fact that modern life had left me feeling completely bereft.

Then, Mr. Brooks says the Democrats are "completely bereft of ideas".

Almost entirely bereft of popular support, the guerrilla campaign flopped.

(Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 1962; cited in Nelson, 2004: 14) And another citation from Milton Friedman in the same line: "… the notion of social justice is a completely empty expression, bereft of all determinable contents".

I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

That we all feel bereft.

"By the time I was completely stoned I felt utterly bereft," he continued.