This was in fact a general strategy of a government bereft of social supporters and anxious to establish a solid relationship with relevant sectors of civil society.
It resides, on their view, in certain elite thinkers, whereas others are bereft.
Instead, readers are bereft of predictable orientation and lacking heroic characters or an omnipresent narrator to guide them.
Yet many would doubt that the original scriptural text is so bereft of argument as is alleged here.
Warts and all, that is no small achievement in a field so bereft of comparative research.
However, none but the most ideologically pure and intellectually bereft will be able to discount this work.
From this perspective, organs are bereft of any symbolic meaning and do not have any significance for the person.
More generally speaking too, free-floating individuals bereft of a community identity were potential criminals who often took to breaking the law.
