Sentence examples similar to complete defenselessness from inspiring English sources

It was their utter defenselessness and the accuracy of many of the attacks that broke their spirit.

Feelings of deep panic were eventually supplanted by one of utter defenselessness in which, I was certain, all dark information about my past could be gleaned.

It remains one of the indelible books about Vietnam: the images coming out of the war suggested, to Merwin, the utter defenselessness of a traditional culture against the fury of modernity.

From the book: Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man's lot, sealed up in his bee cell from all the others in the world.

Miles notes a pattern: "Jesus's involuntary defenselessness at the beginning of his life mirrors and anticipates his voluntary defenselessness at its end".

Poverty levels affect the "defenselessness" of populations in the low elevation coastal zone.

The table becomes a bed — that great symbol of closeness, of defenselessness — and Marianne 1 curls up on it.

Smells are reminders of the body's defenselessness and porousness; they come from the inside.

It turns out that the very size & defenselessness of the school of herring constitute a defense against a predator.

Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state.

To provide a measure of social vulnerability and "defenselessness" in the face of climate stressors in the coastal zone of West Africa.