It makes all four generations of the family appear strangely bereft, not so much upwardly mobile immigrants making it into the promised land as much as characters flailing at the boundaries of life, wanting to be let across the borders into the mysterious disquiet that afflicts so much of the rest of humanity.
With so much information missing, life seems bereft of inner logic.
And the scattering Reid has in mind isn't so much the scattering of ashes, but what bereft elephants do when they find the bones of their relatives picked clean by scavengers.
And the scattering Reid has in mind isn't so much the scattering of ashes, but what bereft elephants do when they find the bones of their relatives picked clean by scavengers. of deliberate ritual, ancient and necessary.
So many line-breaks, so much positivity in a backline that was once bereft of ideas.
It's not so much that Clinton is innately secretive and often seemingly bereft of personality – it's that being a woman seeking power in our society made her that way.
Contra Bernanke and Yellen, there's too little discrimination in the economics profession precisely because economists agree on so much, and that's why it's such a stagnant, bereft- of-originality waste of humanity.
Like the rest of the town's black residents we met, he feels bereft at the ANC leader's passing: "Madiba has done so much.
Her audience no longer consisted of farmers' wives, but included perhaps embassy staff or dowagers from Eaton Square – for the first time bereft of all maids and cooks-general – who had never before so much as touched a frying pan.
Gabe can't hear what the walls are saying, so he gets jealous when Voice becomes entirely wrapped up in the unfolding story: Hetchman loved his magical hat so much more than his wife that she ran off and took the hat with her, leaving him bereft and alone, with only his bighearted friend Meckel (Peter Friedman) to keep him company.
