Sentence examples for but felt helpless to from inspiring English sources
They were aware of his loneliness, but felt helpless to it.
"Like all of us downtown, we wanted to help somehow, but felt helpless to contribute," Mr. Cohen recalled.
They appeared to provide forthright and candid responses and gave the impression that they wanted to do better for those children and their families but felt helpless to do so and frustrated that they could not do more than refer for tooth extraction.
I wasn't sure I could continue either, but I also knew I felt helpless to stop.
I was at a local spa having a casual conversation with a young mother, Julie, who began to cry as she spoke about the tragedy that happened last month in Connecticut, but felt helpless as to what to do about it.
Residents in areas with an Isis presence are mostly very devout, and unhappy about a group that questions their faith, threatens their way of life, and is reported to have burned one shrine, but they feel helpless to stop them.
But I feel helpless to convey to the nice, well-intentioned, cultivated – and, for all I know, Jewish – English people why they make themselves sound like proto-Nazis to Americans like me.
I am certain that there are many gospel-believing white Christians out there who want to make a difference but feel helpless and have no idea what to do.
She hates the idea, but feels helpless: "I did not know how to fight a white man; I was born without that muscle".
"But, above all, I felt helpless".
