Modern Chinese women rarely have such a presence — in the cities, it is far more common for women to affect a certain physical helplessness.
But "Topdog/Underdog" is about expectations as well as choices, and a certain learned helplessness, planted in Booth and Lincoln early in life, is the third roommate.
There's a certain learned helplessness that comes from blaming other people all the time, and the sooner you practice being accountable, the faster you see that you have some control over what you do and why.
We dispensed, too, with plotlessness, meandering, female helplessness, travelogue, moral suasion, and certain types of villainy.
Today there is a sort of helplessness, where customers know that certain queries are too complicated, and they wont even issure them to a search engine.
The best running jokes are evidence of human helplessness – the inability to stop doing certain things, or escape the same situation.
In certain situations the team members experienced feelings of helplessness, as they were unable to act in order to improve the situation.
Suggests a certain cynicism from the bidding club, and a level of helplessness on the part of the seller.
He has, in general, dealt with congressional attempts to keep him from closing Guantánamo, such as restrictions on spending certain funds to move prisoners, with a sort of learned helplessness, as if all his good will had faced an impassable wall.
