Examples of devoid

• In exercising this ' right ', government agents also proclaimed such deaths devoid of all moral, social or spiritual consequences for their perpetrators.

• This ridge is solid, prominent and devoid of any spines.

• All other solutions of this type are devoid of physical meaning.

• Repetition of lines through rehearsals and performances often produced 'a habit of mechanical speech on the stage', devoid of any emotion.

• He thus produced a natural history that was devoid of any narrative notions or patterns of development.

• Both mathematical models represent the ideal conditions devoid of external factors that can skew the actual data with interacting age-related and period-related confounders.

• If he had used stationary police units as his defining example, his hypothesis would have been devoid of any real content.

• First, the implicational universals concerning phonological inventories are devoid of empirical content since the theory does allow for ' accidental ' gaps to occur.