Sentence examples for becomes helpless from inspiring English sources

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.

There's something delightfully perverse about how the BBC patiently waits until the evening, until the precise moment that everyone becomes helpless and inert from too much food and booze, and then slams them in the face with a torrent of genuine misery.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

"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").