Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also a freshman who will soon select housing for next year. the agonizing process of choosing four Houses has left me bereft of guidance--until now, Since I am Chinese, I will obviously prefer a House with a large Asian population, namely Quincy. I and my blockmates will feel at home living there since I Asian, and there are a lot of Asian people down in Quincy...
...fitting (and in the eyes of many, predictable) that Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia" should be listening to Callas's voice as he seeks to express why opera means so much to him, a gay man dying of AIDS and bereft of his position in society. Koestenbaum is of the opinion that this scene serves to establish Hank's gay character, an effective use of opera in a "somewhat shlocky" film. Is Hank's character an opera queen ? Certainly not, according to Koestenbaum. No matter how much opera means in his life, "no opera queen's apartment is that organized...
This alienation, said Cisneros has "left usnearly bereft of the ability and will to cometogether to use the great lever that can begovernment--which belongs to all of us--to effectchange...
...reach for this opportunity? One possible explanation is, well, simple opportunism. The P.L.O. -- bereft of its superpower patron, cut off from its gulf Arab paymasters, faced with rising Islamic opposition in the occupied territories -- was in a state of terminal decline. Yasser Arafat decided that if the P.L.O. did not accept this offer, there would soon be no P.L.O. to accept any offer...
...good glop are two piquant themes. One is a child's need to believe that invisible friends are real. Early on, when the four ghosts desert child Thomas and tell him, "Just be with your mommy and daddy," you can read the panic in his eyes; he is as bereft as Baby Jessica. The other theme is an adult's need to believe that our final worldly departure might come only after we have made peace with others and, thus, ourselves. That's worth a tear. Even a critic will cry for what might have been: a nice film inside...