Sentence examples for become helpless from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most painful truth that must be confronted is that, faced with the helplessness of children, social workers themselves can become helpless because they find the children's suffering unbearable.

Martin Seligman's Learned Helplessness theory indicates depressed people have learned to become helpless and have feelings of futility and control over their lives.

Now we have become helpless, we can't help the people living there for more the 30 years.

The other objection is that churches and synagogues taking such money will become helpless dependents of federal bureaucrats and compromise their religious missions.

Apparently, all a novelist has to do is give a character a powerful desire (to rise socially, to get away with murder) and I, as a reader, become helpless not to make that desire my own.

So we shuffle on, until it's too late to make any decisions at all, and we become helpless pawns in the politics of deferral, and utterly dependent on the humiliating procedures that for all our rational life we so wished to avoid.

In extreme cases, a loss of control can lead to a condition known as learned helplessness, in which a person becomes helpless to influence his own environment.

But as soon as they descended into the Amazon forests they became helpless incompetents".

I was amazed how quickly Joe became helpless, and how eagerly we took to our task.

Zimmermann had been in full control, but as soon as he walked off the mound he and the rest of his teammates became helpless.

"One of the contestants ordered the bartender to put a raw egg into each drink; the other protested, but in vain, and took his 'straight.' The man who took the eggs won and was able to walk home, while the other became helpless").