On the plus side, Chris Brunt, cruelly deprived of an appearance at Euro 2016 by a knee ligament injury, could make a welcome return midway through the qualifiers.
She has been busy and, she will tell you, she has the harried, sleep-deprived appearance to prove it.
Though no research backs up the sleep-eyebag link, psychological studies show that we feel worse about our appearance when sleep deprived.
Their coach, Tony Smith, formerly of Leeds, has been set all season on making amends for defeat by the Rhinos in the club's first Grand Final appearance last October, and the shock loss to Hull in the Challenge Cup semi-final which deprived them of a fourth Wembley appearance in five years has further concentrated minds in Cheshire.
Already Panesar's non-appearance in Sydney has deprived him of the chance to improve on his genuinely appalling record in Australia, perhaps the worst of any Englishman to make the trip.
Wouldn't it be a twist of that aforementioned fate if he deprived the Knicks of their 15th straight playoff appearance?
If Torvill and Dean were to coach Britain's elite youngsters, they would find themselves working alongside one of the Russians who deprived them of gold in their second and final Olympic appearance.
If the Basij see an enemy in Mohsen, it is partly because the young man's appearance — gelled hair, blue jeans, smooth cheeks — connotes the secular liberality of a less materially deprived class.
Both types of institution housed people who were deprived of their freedom either by disability or by force of law; therefore, we find similarities in the disposition of space and in the degree of humanitarianism expressed in their outward appearance.
I felt surprised, and deprived.
