(1) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.
(2) But buyers rarely occupy the properties, leaving parts of prime central London empty of residents and any remaining local shops bereft of customers popping out to buy a paper or pint of milk.
(3) Best of the bunch is 2006’s Tempbot , which beautifully satirises the spirit-crushing ennui of office environments by imagining a robot struggling to connect with homo sapiens co-workers who often seem as bereft of humanity as he is.
(4) Alexander also believes that a cash-strapped populist campaign, bereft of helicopters and glitz, matches the austere times.
(5) Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
(6) The mass sell-off of council housing – never replaced – left many working class communities bereft of affordable homes for their children.
(7) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(8) "They knew I was not into sharing, but after she left, I was pretty obviously bereft.
(9) Newcastle may have spent more than £80m in the last two transfer windows but they have lost their last six away matches in the Premier League: rudderless and bereft of confidence, Monday can surely only go one way.
(10) Critics say shuanggui detainees, bereft of legal protection, are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses.
(11) It’s so artistically bereft that only a belief in a higher power could explain its existence.
(12) No sooner had punk exploded into the mainstream, it seemed suddenly tired and bereft of new ideas; the result being lots of bands playing the same three chords, dressed in the same studded jackets and shouting "oi" a lot.
(13) Updated at 5.36am BST 5.08am BST Guardian commentator Gary Younge says Obama looked tired and defensive , bereft of his usual charisma, and declares Romney the winner: Poorly moderated and often wonkish, the debate frequently got swamped in the kind of detail that few could follow and with charges and counter-charges that few could immediately verify.
(14) Alone and bereft, he found himself with the razor blade.
(15) If we don't make it known that most happiness studies say that mothers are no happier than childless women – sometimes quite the reverse – then women without children will always unnecessarily feel bereft.
(16) Bereft of company, he decides to awaken a female fellow passenger, leading to an unexpected romance.
(17) "No one could fail to be deeply moved by the terrible predicament faced by these men struck down in their prime and facing a future bereft of hope," he said.
(18) They are, and it’s worth having a sober discussion about what to do about these militants, bereft of whitewashing the existence of George W Bush or watching someone like John McCain score sad points by crowing that he was right about this one of 75 immediate existential threats he’s seen looming from every shadow for five years.
(19) His concession speech was graceful enough, but it soon became clear that he was shell-shocked, bereft.
(20) In defence Ron Vlaar was left wanting when up against Zamora while Austin’s movement was too much for a team bereft of confidence.
Gormless
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(2) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
(3) He may look just as gormless, but it's in a totally different way.
(4) A by no means exhaustive list of his political interventions includes: health – he forced ministers to listen to his gormless support for homeopathic treatments and every other variety of charlatanism and quackery; defence – he protested against cuts in the armed forces; justice – he complained about ordinary people’s access to law, or as he put it: “I dread the very real and growing prospect of an American-style personal injury culture”; political correctness – he opposes equality as I suppose a true royal must; GM foods – he thinks they’re dangerous, regardless of evidence; modern architecture – he’s against; and eco-towns – he’s for, as long as he has a say in their design.
(5) That the gormless believed a straight lie was all the proof it needed.
(6) These photos – if you look past the gormless Wayfarer-wearing Joey Essex-alike pouring champagne off the roof in the foreground – might reveal the location of several hidden assets.
(7) Just ask the gormless Sarah, who – bless – didn’t think a CV would help her find work and missed a meeting with her work coach back in March.
(8) Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age.
(9) It was a mess of pointless statistics and gormless campaigny stunts, like the one where Heston put a giant breakfast on the floor near a train station and chased commuters around until they ate it.
(10) Reaction around the globe was much the same: half the world shook their heads in sadness, their spirits crushed, as they considered the loss of El Diego's talent and the narratives that never would be; the other hopped around from foot to foot with big gormless grins on their faces as though their lottery numbers had just come up.
(11) It's a gormless action film about bloodthirsty revenge.
(12) But Malaysia's fancifully named " hibiscus revolution " has potential, at least, to inflict a winter of discontent on the gormless government of prime minister Najib Razak.
(13) Already Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka, has reportedly ousted the head of the transition, the hapless and gormless New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
(14) People go on and on about Columbo and how what made him so clever was that he acted gormless.
(15) But the Saatchi team refined it further, depicting a gormless-looking Miliband peeping out of Salmond’s top pocket.
(16) When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste-jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(17) If you truly can’t bear to watch the latest car crash in a Liberal election campaign that’s already rated women candidates for their “ sex appeal ” above their ability to discern “refugee intake” from a “traffic refuge island” and involved the gormless sexualisation of young female netball players , I’ll do my best to describe it again without gagging.
(18) The Great British Menu is easily just as gormless as MasterChef.
(19) The utter capitulation of London’s planning system in the face of serious money is detectable right there in that infantile, random collection of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the privatised air.