Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Balkans," does little except kindle a sense of despair and insecurity. Krauthammer avoids the tough questions: When and how will this happen? Can it be prevented? While he is right in noting that ethnically driven forces have the potential to tear the U.S. asunder, Krauthammer's essay is bereft of viable solutions or practical advice on what can be done. ALEX RIVERO Springfield, Virginia...
...Wheeling Symphony to her marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West Virginia before breaking down and admitting that she actually cried half the time during that period, almost bereft, feeling deeply alone and friendless ... Even after she acknowledged her life was less than the fairy tale she presented to the public, Rachael worried that her comments might reflect negatively on Gaston...
...Personally, I am bereft, and institutionally we are diminished, by the passing of such a devoted Harvard friend," Knowles added...
...notes TIME contributor Iyer lost when his home in Santa Barbara was consumed by fire in 1990 were for a planned nonfiction volume on Cuba, which would have been his fourth book. Thus bereft, Iyer turned to his imaginatioin and recast the work as a first novel. In that sense, he says, "it really is the book that rose from the ashes...
...wife Alison. His simmering emotional violence may provoke Alison to break into tears, shy a hot iron at him or walk out. Yet Jimmy sees himself as a Byronic figure, the last righteous romantic. No one can feel things as intensely as he; no one can feel so bereft or betrayed. He can connect with people only when they are at the whip ends of his invective. So he desperately needs Alison, as both his victim and his audience...