But they're actually pretty chipper, in a manic, sleep-deprived sort of way.
Lately, we've been especially deprived of the sort of galvanizing that Oprah can induce.
Far too much time, you may instinctively feel, for bereaved families to be deprived of any sort of real closure".
Labour has held the constituency since its inception, but it's exactly the sort of deprived, working-class area that the party no longer remotely understands.
Solar-powered rice cookers, cheap and efficient public transportation, hygienic water storage, and technology to increase educational opportunities for the isolated and the deprived are the sorts of innovation that the world truly needs.
"We just decided for nuisance value that we would pay him off and make him go away and deprive him of his sort of oxygen," Mr. Blumenthal said.
As they departed, Congressional Republicans were clearly frustrated that a deal on a two-year extension of a series of tax cuts intended for the middle class collapsed in the face of White House insistence on a five-year extension, depriving them of the sort of achievement they like to be able to take home to the voters during recess.
Privately however, Macdonald rejoiced that the government couldn't risk calling a by-election telling one supporter years later, "If the truth must be told, I was sometimes afraid that they would open up a seat and deprive me of this sort of ammunition".
On the other hand, a private placement of this sort deprives the issuer of the favourable publicity flowing from a successful public offering; it may not afford sufficient resources for very large firms with continuing demands for capital; and it involves rather restrictive legal requirements.
All the same, called upon to lend her talents to giving deprived uptown parks the same sort of artful treatment she's paid handsomely to produce downtown, Miller always finds a way to help.
But because most defendants take plea bargains instead of going to trial, the courts are often deprived of the opportunity to sort it out.
