Law enforcement is often helpless to catch up with tricksters adept at staying ahead of the game.
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.
She felt helpless, like a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck.
"Such enhanced impunity," he wrote in an interview on social media Monday, "where the coalition assumes greater leeway in acting with utter disregard to civilian casualties, can and already has spelled disaster to the many helpless people of Yemen caught in the crossfire of the current war".
In a solo for a wounded soldier, he repeatedly jumps up with a helpless rhythm that catches the heart.
Mr. Schlaich stages this moment pitilessly; his subject is an ant caught in a helpless rage that is both justified and insignificant.
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.
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.
