Word: bereft
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...question is, Who is Oprah without Oprah? The show was monolithic in a way that's no longer possible, even for a mogul like Winfrey. She plans to "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN, but nobody is saying whether she'll have a show of her own. Bereft of her royal presence, will people care what Oprah wants them to watch...
...question remains, if the central bank in Abu Dhabi decides it no longer wants to help out its construction-crazed, oil-bereft dependent, what assets would Dubai be able to offer up to the foreign banks who are owed billions? (Read about the Dubai debacle and the world financial crisis...
...hadn’t been approved by his economic advisors. Support from a Republican president lent congressional Democrats the air cover to move a bill that received no more than 30 minutes of debate on the Senate floor before passing by a vote 74-19, a vote seemingly bereft of partisanship. Perhaps the measure had taken them so much by surprise that senators hadn’t entirely accounted for the political ramifications of a bill that clearly enjoyed their visceral support. In any event, intense industry pressure convinced lawmakers to abandon the effort and left them trying to explain...
...doesn't know he's a cyborg, that Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg borrowed for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and which showed up this year in Moon and Surrogates. Plus the literal underclass and upper-class strata of WALL•E. And not to forget the bereft father, twisted by family tragedy, from last week's Law Abiding Citizen. "If you lose your son like this," a fellow scientist tells Dr. Tenma, "and you don't go crazy, you're not a human being." Tenma doesn't plot the ingenious murders of everyone in Metro City, the way the father does...
...like Ostap, the book demands the reader’s undivided attention. The novel’s content is humorous, but it remains reflective of the Soviet philosophy of living: one long procession of change comprised of marchers doomed to parade around en masse, doing little of any meaning, bereft of any individuality...