Exempel på bereft

• 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.

• From this perspective, organs are bereft of any symbolic meaning and do not have any significance for the person.

• However, none but the most ideologically pure and intellectually bereft will be able to discount this work.

• Warts and all, that is no small achievement in a field so bereft of comparative research.

• Yet many would doubt that the original scriptural text is so bereft of argument as is alleged here.

• Instead, readers are bereft of predictable orientation and lacking heroic characters or an omnipresent narrator to guide them.

• It resides, on their view, in certain elite thinkers, whereas others are bereft.

• 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.