Sentence examples for Complete helplessness from inspiring English sources
I leave the surgery with a prescription, a sick note, and a sense of complete helplessness.
In a marvellous 1973 essay, "On the Perfection Underlying Life," she coolly contemplates the "panic of complete helplessness," which "drives us to fantastic extremes".
In less than two hours, she descends from cheerful absent-mindedness to complete helplessness, as her frustrated family all but gives up caring for her.
Among the most searing memories left by the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was the complete helplessness of industry and government officials as a runaway well spilled nearly 5 million barrels, or 206 million gallons, before it was finally capped.
This man is in love to the point of complete helplessness (to a point of not even being afraid to talk to the girl's father!).
Both husband and wife had come from Jewish families caught up in the Holocaust during World War II, and the feeling of "complete and utter helplessness and hopelessness" that descended on this older woman was intolerable, Dr. Gallagher-Thompson said.
The sadness, the fear, the feeling of complete and utter helplessness.
Following a series of questions on their readiness to obey even the most difficult of his requests, Baba selected twenty companions to join him in a life of complete "hopelessness and helplessness".
It uses as an illustration the helplessness and complete dependence of a kitten being carried by its mother; hence, its doctrine is known as marjara-nyaya ("the analogy of the cat").
Sixty-five chronic pain patients, participating in a 4-week multidisciplinary program, completed measures of pain helplessness, catastrophizing, pain-related anxiety (process factors), pain severity, interference, activity level and depression (outcomes) at pre-, mid- and posttreatment.
Our results showed that subjects with a high school diploma reported higher levels of helplessness, compared with subjects who completed or were pursing graduate studies, and people in a NEET condition exhibited a particularly high level of helplessness.
