Sentence examples for caught helpless from inspiring English sources

In exposing the squalid machinations and duplicities of Blair, Levy, Peter Mandelson, Derry Irvine, Gordon Brown and their functionaries, Bower allows Ecclestone to emerge as the victim, the great manipulator caught, helpless and humiliated, in a net of politicians' lies.

Mr. Schlaich stages this moment pitilessly; his subject is an ant caught in a helpless rage that is both justified and insignificant.

As addicts often do, Mr. Bissinger felt helpless, caught in the grip of a compulsion that fuels not only Gucci's bottom line, Dr. Benson said, but also global economies.

Reflecting on literary English Gothic, its "rancid" antiquarianism and commerce with the supernatural and folk tales, he concludes, "It is a constant feature of the English imagination, caught in some helpless reversion to the past".

Graebner makes a blind rush for the net, preferring to be caught in motion than helpless on the baseline.

She felt helpless, like a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck.

Guilt and regret imply free will and choice, yet these are characters caught up in roles they seem helpless to rewrite.

Don't get to caught up up may find yourself helpless and friendless.

The stories leave a pitiful impression: A backward people caught up in brutal modern war turns in helpless bewilderment to omens & portents.

The stories leave a pitiful impression: A backward people caught up in brutal modern war turns in helpless bewilderment to omens & portents..

"Caught between a nettle and a thorn", the helpless narrator watches as monetary greed and a flagrant injustice destroys a community and creates an avoidable refugee crisis, whose contemporary relevance is unmistakable.