Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facing a major health-care crisis. He's muffled with bandages, has lost his job and insurance. "You said you'd never lose your job, so we'd always be covered," Louise angrily elbows Harry. No word yet on what, if anything, Ross Perot intends to do to the bereft couple. parparFor a full transcript of the ad, see the Daily News Archives.parparparpar
...Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism of his works. He was reserved in public; in many of his photographs, he looked the way Camus should look, a slender, dark, intense Bogart type, a tough guy betrayed by sad eyes...
...stories are not, however, mere mimetic renditions of an unordered world, presented to readers as simple records of life. Although they generally are composed of plot and dialogue only, without narrative interpretation or explanation of the events they contain, Mr. McGahern says that they are not bereft of an attempt to answer questions, only that they are bereft of the actual answers. "I would think that all good writing makes suggestions," he says, advancing his definition of quality in literature, "and all bad writing gives answers. In that sense, the images comment...
...even such strong signals get missed. Doctors and police may be unaware of a family's history, or they may be blinded by pity for the bereft parents. Marybeth Tinning of Schenectady, New York, won only sympathy as, one by one, her nine youngsters died of SIDS and other vague natural causes between 1972 and 1985. Doctors and friends suspected some rare genetic defect was to blame, even though one of the victims was an adopted son. (Tinning was finally convicted in 1986 of murdering her last child.) "We have prejudices about what killers look like," says D.A. Fitzpatrick...
Customers who returned today found a virtually empty room, bereft of tables and chairs. A salad bar and two blackboards with menus were the only indications that the locale had once been a restaurant which served a variety of soups, salads and sandwiches...