South of Burgas we enter the Ropotamo Nature Reserve, where for a few kilometres the road is blissfully devoid of billboards telling us that all our dreams will come true if we buy an apartment in a seaside complex shaped like a giant W. Following Andrey's instructions, we park up at a small roadside stop just before the road bends inland and arches upward after crossing the Ropotamo River.
Upstairs, the unoccupied front desk was devoid of the tell-tale signs of receptionist taking a restroom or food break.
It can be pure, calm, dark, light, clean, dirty, full of harmony and devoid of it," Voigt tells us.
She looked devoid of emotion as she told her story, and I saw her eyes light up only when I asked her to tell me more about her village.
We're now surrounded by hyper-connected smart devices that are autonomous, conversational, and relational, but they're completely devoid of any ability to tell how annoyed or happy or depressed we are.
On the Leyline, their eighth album (although you'd think it was a reissue from the Britpoppy cover) is not devoid of them: the opener, I Told You So, is a startlingly sweet Beatles pastiche, although the other stand-out tracks repeat this trick - another leisurely harmony here, another Lennonish lilt there - like a lacklustre end-of-pier magician.
The scheme that led to more than 190 letters being issued to Irish republican On the Runs "was devoid of morality", MPs have been told.
Consisting mainly of R&B that stays a safe two-chevron distance behind the cutting edge, it's utterly devoid of joy, and it's very telling that the only memorable hooks are someone else's: a bit of Duran's "Planet Earth" on "Stand Up", and the looped intro from Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" on "Boy Like You".
Jerry affects to be busy, but truth to tell, he's devoid of ideas and looking for diversions.
Being told you're "devoid of any distinctive character" is always a blow but to hear it in front of a packed courtroom is doubly cruel.
