Anthony Hopkins

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Welsh Actor

David Bowie

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

English Musician

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Roman Statesman

Richard Dawkins

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

English Scientist

George Matthew Adams

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

American Editor

Gerard Manley Hopkins

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

English Poet

Max Apple

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

American Writer

Orrin Hatch

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

Politician

Stefanie Powers

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

American Actress

Ben Kingsley

English Actor

Often implies deep loss or emptiness that impacts emotions.

Emotional Weight

Works well with abstract concepts, like hope or love, not just physical things.

Use with abstracts

'Bereft' describes a lack due to a significant loss, not just any absence.

Not just lack

Especially used to convey the emotional state after losing a loved one.

Associated with grief

Highlights a sense of incompleteness in the person feeling bereft.

Feeling incomplete

Connotes a profound level of sadness or emptiness, not a mild one.

Emotionally intense

 you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life. Great leaders know that.

How to escape...

 them always following them around and I can only imagine that they feel a little bereft our as our lions asleep peacefully the same cannot be said for the Lions of Juma know what we've got here is the lioness of the incomer pride

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 It causes the bereft lionesses quickly to come into season. However, the lionesses need a strong coalition of males for their future protection So, they must prevent them fighting over sex.

Brutal Lion Infanticide...

 hemisphere ik environments were bereft of the potential to make vitamin D in their skin for most of the year this had tremendous consequences for the evolution of human skin pigmentation