Posted on 09/03/2012 5:50:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 9/3/12
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bereft; adj.
1.a simple past tense and past participle of bereave. verb (used with object), be·reaved or be·reft, be·reav·ing. 1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of ): Illness bereaved them of their mother. 2. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of ): The war bereaved them of their home. 3. Obsolete . to take away by violence2. deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness. Example Sentences
It is a performance wholly bereft of complexity of character.
All this makes for a messy, unbalanced account of violent acts too often bereft of their political and ideological context.
Increasingly, children are bereft of any contact with their fathers
Etymology: Origin: before 900; Middle English bereven, Old English berēafian; cognate with Dutch berooven, German berauben, Gothic biraubōn. See be-, reave1
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I was reading the jason biggs ordeal - his wife is worse than he is! They act like 7th grade boys who have just discovered they can joke about “dirty things”
Happy Labor Day to all who are fortunate enough to have steady work-and may the rest of us have work after November...
I’ll rejoice to see the end
Of the Obama administration
Even if he goes to Hawaii
On a permanent vacation
Bereft of sense as he is
With queen Michelle in tow
The people in his home state
Might enjoy their daily show
He’ll play golf and advertise
Every course where he’s seen-
And Michelle’s clothes won’t only
Be appropriate for Halloween
I had to borrow that line-I loved it!
Four years of an empty chair,
his second empty under his hair.
Together no intellectual heft,
leaving the country bereft.
Time to throw out this pair.
That was sort of my problem - girl I’ve gone to for a long time was having a boyfriend meltdown last time I was there. she was attempting to fix a huge error from the week before when she was busy and I had another girl there cut my hair and it wasn’t even the same length on each side! I was stunned and got back there to her and she was “distracted” and I wasn’t happy with her either. I decided to find a new salon rather than pay her to tell me about her drunk boyfriend.
I think Alcatraz Island would be a pretty cool place for a wealthy person to have an estate, actually-complete with a haunted prison historical landmark, and it is a pretty island in a lonely sort of way...
We visited Alcatraz Island when MrT5 was stationed in SanFran-that tour and the restaurants on the wharf were the only nice thing about that city-it is a lunatic asylum that looks like a Disney set.
I was glad to read today (and be reminded) that we don’t pay for secret service protection forever for past presidents; just nine years. So we are no longer footing the bill for the clinton compound in NY.
I’ve done my own hair forever, as do most of the women out here, but I still have friends in the city who have followed stylists from salon to salon for years.
Isn’t that the truth! I think it should only be 5 years-if someone can’t adjust their lifestyle to that of a private citizen in 5 years, then they are probably in need of counseling. What the hell would a former president do if they had to go back to their former job (I wish they had to)? Have the secret service go to the office with them? That would not bring people flocking to their business, to say the least...
I saw that the ‘rats are having the I-wanna-sanctuary-city clown mayor of SA, Julien-AKA hooligan-Castro to give a keynote speech. He is exactly the sort of Hispanic who almost makes me ashamed to be-Henry Cisneros redux without the mistress (so far)...
Which number anniversary is telephony again? ;-)
Did you see all the pics on Twitchy? There are some funny ones, with golf clubs and other props.
Add another artful dodger to the O’s surrogates-Debbie Washerwoman didn’t give a direct answer to the “are you better off” question on Megyn Kelly’s show-I heard her dissembling and turned the TV off...
Add another artful dodger to the O’s surrogates-Debbie Washerwoman didn’t give a direct answer to the “are you better off” question on Megyn Kelly’s show-I heard her dissembling and turned the TV off...
A++++ hilarious!
A+++ nothing’s too good for that pair. In their minds.
Thank you!
Actually, those flowered, I-killed-a-couch outfits of hers are very fitting for that island lifestyle-she has the feminine equivalent of a Hawaiian shirt to wear every day...
Mama Robinson can’t get her behind to HI fast enough! She’s prob campaigning against him to insure she gets there in jan and not 4 yrs hence.
Oh, well, I guess if she is tired of the frigid Chicago winters, and is able to move to a posh life on the balmy beaches of Hawaii without spending her own money, she might as well go for it, no matter if she has to sabotage her daughter and SIL...
Her Chicago behind has been in the WH and on most of their vacations for the past four years, no way she’s giving up this lifestyle!
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