Sentence examples for * its helplessness from inspiring English sources

It is the worst-written book I have read in years (the effect is rather like wandering through a ruined building), but its helplessness gives it an integrity it might otherwise lack.

It was true the village was fighting, but Ram had exaggerated its helplessness.

Not a generation's heartlessness, but its helplessness.

"The Sea" was written about the death of her grandfather in a boating accident, but its helplessness in the face of loss bleeds inevitably into fresher wounds.

The FBI, which just a few days ago was attempting to convince the country of its helplessness in the face of encrypted iPhones, has generously offered its assistance in unlocking an iPhone and iPod for a prosecutor in Arkansas, the Associated Press reports.

I lingered on, fascinated by how truly dead and rotten the old tree was - and how aggressively other life forms were feeding on its helplessness.

She changes and feeds the baby -- "its total helplessness protected her" -- kneads the dough and bakes it, gathers wood, milks an udder-swollen cow.

This, they reasoned, should force the brain to give up its learned helplessness.

Gaining on "Intervention" as a cult favorite, and perhaps even more frightening in its depictions of human helplessness and squalid living conditions, is "Hoarders".

In its truest form, learned helplessness posits that exposing subjects to such distressing conditions that they become completely compliant.

If privacy is a kind of shield, its loss only reinforces the helplessness of the victim.