Soon after his departure she dies, utterly bereft. Without her, he felt emotionally bereft. Disembodied, he seemed bereft of soul. Dietrich is reduced to a fantastic and helpless clothes horse, bereft of any dramatic function. Crouch lives bereft of his memories or sense of self. The boss suddenly "feels a wretchedness that frightens him and finds himself bereft". The victim is portrayed bereft of all aesthetic or spiritual grace. Bereft of exterior nourishment, they begin to consume one another. The tree remained bereft of its branches like a man standing upright. Portland is gloriously bereft of this quality. And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee? Sales and the brand, bereft of an image or a following, floundered. Bates called it "pure sub-adolescent junk" and "bereft of redeeming social or artistic importance". Where we be quite bereft of aid, of men, of winds, of tide. Bereft and pregnant, she leaves China.