Word: bereft
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...recent proliferation of consumer communication rights hasn’t stopped with cell phone services. The most outstanding example, and perhaps the freshest in the American mind, is the national do-not-call initiative. Basically, Americans want a right to a disturbance-free dinner—bereft of pesky telemarketers pretending to care how happy we are with our local service…or if we’d be interested in this great new product…or if we’d like a low APR on a credit card. (Who knows how many strings are attached...
...sure that Rush isn’t entirely bereft of any sense of compassion, though when he prints “I don’t have compassion for the poor,” and claims he’s “redefining greatness” on his daily program—which amounts to a mix of hysterics and grandiosity at a level rarely fathomable—it makes me think he overestimates his “talent on loan from God.” If there’s any truth behind Rush’s adamant...
...victory at the U.N. on Thursday, the Bush administration finally reached that point in every Behind the Music episode, about 45 minutes in, when the narrator tells us that the feckless hero “finally hit rock bottom.” Only then is the downtrodden divus, bereft of dignity and confidence, ready to rediscover his sense of proportion and take pleasure in the company of friends who do not revere him as a colossus bestriding mortals...
...civil society in the north and south of the country. But the Sunni triangle festers, and we are one strategically placed truck bomb-or coordinated sequence of bombs-away from disaster. This sort of uncertainty should be a revelation to the Vice President. His worldview is a simple one, bereft of even the neoconservative romance with exporting democracy. He believes that America has the power to create the world it wants-whether that means going it alone in Iraq, putting Ahmed Chalabi in power there or pretending that Yasser Arafat is not the Palestinian leader. These miscalculations have diminished America...
...even late into her sixties, she played basketball until weeks before her death, so there’s the local basketball coach, flushed and upset. A fleet of local librarians arrives to marvel at her ravenous appetite for and absorption of world literature. There are many as ashen and bereft as we, all of us who knew her; and there were distant family, polite co-workers, high school acquaintances. Hundreds upon hundreds come...