Sentence examples for helpless act from inspiring English sources

It's part of his "helpless" act -- he throws himself on your mercy.

Then they closed the rear of the car, then opening up the front, which is the baggage compartment, and put on their helpless act again.

Dr. Patricia Adair Gowaty of the University of Georgia has found that female bluebirds that signal their neediness, even incompetence, to their mates end up getting comparatively more help from the husband than do those females that seem fit and competent -- though as yet there is no evidence that the helpless act increases a female's reproductive success.

The president isn't helpless to act, of course, but one has to remember that national macroeconomic policies are shaped by the unpredictable actions of the central bank and are a collaborative effort between the executive and a two-house legislature run through with checks and balances.

How else to explain "At least it was less worse that the third person was a man" or "He looked as dangerous as a man in a wheelchair can: a tiger champing the sawdust behind bars, growling and helpless to act"?

In previous research, he and his colleagues disrupted signaling in the fish's habenula and showed that this made them more likely to act "helpless" at the prospect of an electric shock.

He discovered that when electric shocks are applied to a dog over periods of time the dog begins to act helpless.

The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them.

Initially, there's a tendency to just focus on the problems and almost act a little helpless.

When Orestes kills Clytemnestra, the servants' helpless stares show that the act is anything but cathartic: a new horror has been piled upon the old.

Kleiman (1988) indicated that female workers in blue-collar occupations are often portrayed as "helpless victims" and "unable to act in their own interests".