(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.
Lovelorn
Definition:
(a.) Forsaken by one's love.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(2) Inglis said the campaign was much more integrated across a range of different media than last year's effort which featured lovelorn snowmen.
(3) Others favour the luxuriant sleaze of Baby Wants To Ride or 1989's gorgeous, lovelorn Tears .
(4) Among other legends, the lovelorn poet Sappho is said to have ended her life here.
(5) But then it's a quality that his fans, particularly women of a certain age who first came across him nearly 30 years ago as lovelorn Lloyd Dobler, the hero of Say Anything , will recognise instantly – a hang-dog odd-man-outness which accompanies expectations of a John Cusack movie to this day.
(6) Ben Whishaw could not be more opposite.” The emergence of actors like Whishaw, who played the lovelorn John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star , Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , and appeared in the BBC series London Spy , poses a dilemma for film-makers.
(7) "I've never felt quite like this," sings Dilla, like a lovelorn robot.
(8) Yet he appears not much older than lovelorn Sam, the precocious child in 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.
(9) The band's most arresting tracks, for me, are the lovelorn ones, such as White Blank Page – and what effect will a happy marriage have on that?
(10) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(11) Tracks is her third UK release in nine weeks: February saw her wreaking havoc as a brattish vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, while earlier this month she all but destroyed a lovelorn Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double.
(12) But most fat women in media didn’t even get that far – most were lovelorn, vulgar comic relief, their sexuality spun as either a menace or a joke.
(13) In TMNT Arnett plays Vern Fenwick, hapless and lovelorn cameraman to intrepid city desk reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox), who barely notices his knock-kneed crush as they happen upon the titular subterranean superheroes.
(14) Despite its visual style, his first feature film, The Hunger (1982), which starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as lovelorn vampires, failed to make much of an impression with critics.
(15) In principle, it's an amusingly odd choice to dress up as a reindeer, and depict its lovelorn life.
(16) It won't translate..." You're most famous for playing the lovelorn Molly in the BBC drama Sherlock .