Sentence examples for desperately bereft from inspiring English sources

With Thomas also gone soft, Bates's sudden return from the dark side leaves Downton desperately bereft of baddies.

None has any interest in providing Mr Sharon or America with the quiescence demanded.Scorned as a partner and bereft of a successor, Mr Arafat is desperately seeking ways out.

But then that would have cast me mistakenly as the bereft son who was overcome with sadness and wanted desperately to stop all the clocks.

But bereft of Miss Bhutto, the party—and the country—look desperately short of leaders of national stature.

Her bereft mother is driven to prostitution, while her father flees to a desperately insecure life as an emigrant to America.

To go with England's 4-1 win in Zagreb last September and the desperately insipid display against Belarus on Saturday, which the Croats edged 1-0, is a side bereft of its two prime forces at Wembley tonight.

I mean, do I ever watch TV? Am I so busy that the image I now project is that of a pop-culture-bereft, ready-meal-popping freak show who zips around North London on her collapsible bicycle desperately trying to keep up with her life?

And with a politics bereft of ideology beyond faith, they have narrowed the avenues for change in a region whose inhabitants desperately want it.