A purely abstract composition, it is entirely bereft of gimmicks or obvious stimuli.
The wife dies and the husband is left bereft.
It is instructive to note that principles are things of which such people and bodies so often seem to be bereft.
The war-scorched landscape is bereft of human presence.
Subsequent visitors, therefore, found themselves bereft of guidance when viewing other fabrics, and their comments were correspondingly limited.
But if we only have the first kind of history, the rhetoricized, we only recover a past in its otherness, bereft of context.
The natural person who follows a scriptural injunction as to offending members may find himself eternally bereft; the group person is more fortunate.
More generally speaking too, free-floating individuals bereft of a community identity were potential criminals who often took to breaking the law.