There in the middle of the ring, floodlit from above was Luigi, staring gormlessly down at the canvas, bereft of an opponent. |
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Critics are also right in suggesting that his policy agenda is somewhat bereft of concrete plans. |
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Attached to no man conjugally and bereft of blood kin, her primary ties to the domestic narrative have been severed. |
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Only Steve looked like a man ready to take responsibility while all around him players looked bereft of confidence. |
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There are the owners who go and leave their dogs at home for six or seven hours a day, bereft of human company and unable to relieve themselves. |
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Although deciduous, it reveals an attractive network of small stems and branches when bereft of leaves. |
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Suddenly this community is bereft of sporting success and devoid of any heroes. |
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With the tracks largely bereft of melody or theme, Villalobos dives ever more deeply into percussive gumbo and leaves accessible hooks behind. |
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Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors. |
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With little or no rain in the last week the venue should be bereft of any significant colour and roach and perch will be the main target species. |
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While they may be provocative, they're quite bereft of the histrionics and hyperbole we've become used to in contemporary art. |
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Yet these places, bereft of services we regard as normal, are clearly a step up from the deeper poverty of their rural hinterlands. |
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Perhaps it says a lot for the depth of Brazil's squad that they have advanced to the latter stages bereft of such a constellation of talent. |
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This verdant valley at the meeting point of the Eastern and Western Ghats is bereft of any civic or infrastructure development. |
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But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary. |
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Tobacco has no attraction for me, though I am far from being bereft of vices. |
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But these objects will be bereft of the patina of age, the rips, tears and stains that create a sense of history. |
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Why was he so chronically bereft of the social skills necessary for good political management? |
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If a pretty, snowy mountain slope is tilted steeply and bereft of trees, it's an avalanche zone. |
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Determining what dreams mean is an inexact science, but not one bereft of logic and sense. |
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And that was at a time when even county matches, now bereft of crowds unless they are one-day slogs, had good attendance figures. |
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Such conduct constitutes private international warfare, a deployment bereft of any legality under the laws of war. |
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Such bloodstained enormities pass unnoticed now in a media pummelled into numbness by a government at last bereft of any moral sense or shame. |
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When we were liberated, we were almost naked, bereft of all possessions, clad in a prisoner's striped uniform and wooden clogs. |
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The legend maintains that the Sargasso Sea derelicts are found shipshape but otherwise bereft of a living soul. |
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Instead, he spools out an obvious, by-the-numbers plot, with an ending bereft of any impact thanks to a too-convenient plot twist. |
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Such a claim is bereft of imagination, competence and, dare I say, common sense. |
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Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football. |
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We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship. |
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A couple of the Hilton residents were doctors or premedical students, so we were never bereft of health treatment. |
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He has such great answers that I guess they are bereft of anything more to say. |
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The salient fact, nevertheless, about the Scottish game is not that it is dull, hold the front page, but that it is bereft of any creative thinking. |
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Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons. |
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WebOS is no more, has ceased to be, is bereft of life, and it rests in peace. |
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We will cease to be, expired stiff and bereft of life, our metabolic processes part of history. |
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A natural sand beach is not what we imagine it to be: a hygienic desert bereft of life and animal and plant matter. |
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But to restrain oneself from this effort is to feel bereft of justice, order, and unity. |
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Also, the Sky's cabin is fairly bereft of stowage compartments and sundry receptacles so go light on the knickknacks and travel guides. |
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But, apparently bereft of political ideas, a panicked government is rushing fresh troops to the region. |
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These infants are bereft of civility or even the rudiments of good manners. |
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Now, bereft of a textile industry the continent's garment industry is being snuffed out. |
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President Mugabe is bereft of principles, devoid of any sense of justice, his regime sinks to unimagined levels as each day passes. |
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The examples there have been in the past have shown that we are suddenly bereft of navigation in one case or another. |
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The L.A. Times team has written a searing, unflinching and unequivocal indictment of a morally criminal operation bereft of any apologies or doubts. |
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And what of those who, bereft of hope, are forced to leave their homes and countries in order to find humane living conditions elsewhere? |
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Years of donor neglect have left it bereft of human and material resources crucial for its functioning. |
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The NDP is so bereft of any policies that those members have absolutely no vision for this country. |
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This Easter challenges us to instill hope in those bereft of hope and shine a ray of light on those who dwell in darkness. |
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It is also the resort of a few desperate governments otherwise bereft of foreign policy alternatives. |
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They were robbed of them and Spanish society is bereft of those lives taken away. |
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The channel at best is purely vague and bereft of any creative leanings. |
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It was a curious match, bereft of the usual passion of the fixture. |
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How can you feel bereft of something that you have never experienced? |
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As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season. |
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They were bereft of actual grappling hooks and climbing tools. |
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Places bereft of major retailers are generally in decline and it's independents and charity shops that move in like weeds rather than chain stores. |
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The three lovelies were bereft of canteen, maps, sleeping gear, and even food, as they trudged into God's country with only their beauty and their image to protect them. |
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So Rangel, bereft of that narrative, chose instead to question the intelligence of a pesky, inquisitorial journalist. |
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I think that they were hoping that their two inside forwards would do the business for them and when that did not succeed they were totally bereft of ideas. |
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Hard-working and tenacious, the Japanese have transformed their country, bereft of oil and other important raw materials, into the second most powerful economy in the world. |
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Can I say to her that the mechanisms that we are going to introduce of strategic planning and programming facilitated by activity-based management may sound to be immensely dry and completely bereft of any idealism. |
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Do not enslave your self to perfumes that are bereft of meaning and value. |
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The great lesson from Mary and from all the poor of Yahweh is that only the humble person, the one bereft of all, is able to welcome the God who comes for an encounter and to pray in spirit and in truth. |
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Ancient ruins are usually bereft of humanity. |
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Generally, Ramadan writes in a gauzy prose bereft of references to named individuals, dateable events, or determinate causal processes. |
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The prose is sometimes flat and the dialogue occasionally unconvincing, but she is by no means bereft of novelistic promise. |
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But if your toolbox is looking a little bereft of gadgetry, an addition from this collection could take some of the strain. |
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None has any interest in providing Mr Sharon or America with the quiescence demanded. Scorned as a partner and bereft of a successor, Mr Arafat is desperately seeking ways out. |
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O'Neill looked and sounded bereft of ideas. |
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In every era, learned men and women have agreed that the young people around them were sloppily educated, poorly motivated, bereft of social graces, and ill-equipped to take over the running of the world. |
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After three decades of war, Afghanistan's economy was decimated, the State had disintegrated, and the society was bereft of infrastructure or even the most basic necessities of life. |
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Without knowledge the world is bereft of culture. |
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The repatriation of funds was moreover essential to the economic recovery of countries which, on the termination of a conflict, were bereft of resources. |
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When the war ended, England was bereft of its Continental possessions, leaving it with only Calais on the continent. |
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This caused a problem, in that Rome came to have a large male population but was bereft of women. |
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And in 1125 Cadwallon slew the grandsons of Edwin ap Goronwy of Tegeingl, leaving Tegeingl bereft of lordship. |
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Generally anywhere bereft of human presence. |
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Conserving cold-war divides at political and economic level under post-cold war conditions would be a policy fraught with danger and bereft of any prospects. |
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Yet, to the second generation, this community looks disorganized, bereft of resources, unattractive and unable to meet the needs that they see as being specific to their generation. |
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Jaxipuxirenda is bereft of such creature comforts. |
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From the most basic of household furnishings to precious and irreplaceable objects of sentimental value, these families have found themselves bereft of homes just before the holidays. |
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Their ostensible grasps at scientific credibility crumble upon even a cursory inspection, and their odious arguments, bereft of facts, should not be allowed set the tone of the conversation. |
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Of course, in a country bereft of any infrastructure worthy of the name, support in terms of basic equipment for the national and provincial parliaments will occupy a special place in this programme. |
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The Community must insist on the practical application of the guideline agreed at Punta del Este, namely a gradual reduction in agricultural policy totally bereft of public schemes to support the internal markets. |
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They accepted the rigours of a poor life bereft of all mundane things. |
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Without a political dimension, the term quickly collapses into a strictly cultural one, bereft of an account of how capital and power operate within a globalized structure. |
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The Social Welfare Fund offers cash assistance to impoverished inhabitants, older persons, orphans bereft of a family carer and impoverished rural women. |
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She also tackles plastic surgery, which gives faces back to people who have been disfigured in accidents, bereft of their identity like the faces of the Egyptian pharaohs or the dancing girls of Angkor. |
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The hosts had not lost in 12 home European games but looked shaky at the back and bereft of attacking ideas, inviting Stoke forward for further opportunities. |
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Episodic in the extreme and indifferently acted, this truth-based account of the life of Italian environmentalist Kuki Gallmann is astonishingly bereft of dramatic momentum. |
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Recently Craig David's selfy showed him so buffed and bereft of flesh that he reminded me of the anatomical chart on the wall of my doctor's surgery. |
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