Word: bereft
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...whether Christianity rendered Judaism's Abrahamic Covenant null and void. But his successors assumed so. The 2nd century church father Justin Martyr wrote that far from an indication of grace, circumcision marked Jews "so that your landmight become desolate, and your cities burned," something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bereft of a divine warrant for their well-being, Jews were at the mercy of their neighbors' worst instincts. In a remarkably frank assessment, the Greek Orthodox bishop of Jerusalem tells Feiler, "What the church did with Abraham was bitter and cruel...
Dartmouth ended the Crimson’s season last year. It was a heartbreaking weekend, one bereft of the timely plays that make champions. It was a weekend one might expect to see duplicated again this year by an apparently punchless bunch, except?...
Today American movies are sadly and irrevocably bereft of Billy Wilder's misanthropic humanism and sparkling wit. Now that's enough to make you cynical...
...boundaries of truth. Having snatched a toy away from his younger sibling while I have my back turned, he'll deny ever doing it, or claim preposterously, "she was finished with it." It's useless to point out to him that what he's saying is easily disproved. His bereft sister is wailing beside him. He simply refuses to back down from...
...Going to the Pub on trips home is, these days, bittersweet, serving as a painful reminder of the sorry situation in Cambridge, which now is bereft of FDE’s. The Grille was the closest thing we had, and it has gone the way of the Dodo. Final clubs now have a monopoly on the weekend social scene; there is no public place, owned by a capitalist adult, where Harvard, Tufts and Boston College students can mingle with creepy Cambridge locals, all reveling in their shared bending of an obsolete and absurd drinking...