Sentence examples for to be bereft from inspiring English sources

But London appeared to be bereft.

The real advance would be a wartime musical in which the women are not there merely to be bereft.

Cardiology seemed to be bereft of genuine intellectual arguments - Tony Clare showed this was not true of psychiatry".

To be bereft is also to be free — free, among other things, to embrace an ersatz family if your actual one goes missing, or repeatedly lets you down.

Laurent Blanc, a man who knows how it feels to be bereft on World Cup final day and a former team-mate of the Brazilian at Barcelona and Internazionale, interpreted it as a liberating moment for Ronaldo: 'I've seen him in his best period of glory when the things he could do were supernatural.

To be bereft of reason, like a baby or a squirrel, is to be morally innocent.

In addition to being bereft of his best friend and having to live with the many undigestible facts of September 11th — one of them being that all that was found of Jimmy was a finger — he is separated from his wife, Janet Andrea Rothh), who has a new boyfriend and is thinking of moving to California, and he's enraged at the thought of losing his three kids.

To describe my relationship to my laptop I need the language of affection - I need it, I depend on it, I'm attached to it, I would be bereft without it - more than the language of real necessity.

"I like the fact of trying to apply some sort of morality to a world which would be bereft without it.

Inside he must be bereft.

The television schedules would be bereft.