I mean, it's great to be a mum, but I felt devoid of my femininity.
"I've set up a second computer, devoid of internet, for my fiction-writing," Lethem explains.
Devoid of the shadow of my mother whose gentle reproach I could almost hear.
When, shortly before his death, he wrote asking about Ada's upbringing, Annabella had this to report: "Not devoid of imagination, but is chiefly exercised in connection with her mechanical ingenuity".
Secularism, he charges, has left us leading hollow, atomised lives, devoid of what he (to my mind bafflingly) calls "fullness".
"Three decades devoid of sunshine hasn't affected my health, unfortunately, despite my smoking the strongest tobacco.
It's a purely commercial exercise devoid of musical enthusiasm, youthfulness or any of the other qualities the Beatles used to possess.
However, while allowing for alternatives, narrative research is not a relativist exercise devoid of methodological rigour or "trustworthiness" [ 32].
I spend more of my leisure time exercising [alone].
We performed a placebo-controlled, crossover, clinical study to evaluate the effects of short-term selective heart rate reduction with ivabradine (2 weeks), an inhibitor of the sinoatrial pacemaker funny current (If) considered devoid of effects on cardiac contractility, on the exercise performance of a homogeneous group of subjects with exercise-limited HFpEF.
My state devoid of children Phoebus knows.
