Sentence examples for helpless pawn from inspiring English sources

Keeley Hawes turns Queen Elizabeth into a helpless pawn in Richard's power games.

But she is granted another that, in light of this substantial new evidence, seems to make her a little more palatable: helpless pawn.

She knows a little about dopamine firsthand: She is a dedicated runner and a helpless pawn in face of dark chocolate.

For this he promises a $10 million fee to a computer hacker named Stanley Hugh Jackmann), who also serves as a moral opponent and helpless pawn.

In Scarpia's office, Miss Thigpen retained a trace of the earlier Tosca, enough to maintain the character's consistency, but she refused to let her character become, even temporarily, a helpless pawn.

Gabriel's moral opponent and helpless pawn, Stanley Jobson Hugh Jackmann), is an embittered genius computer hacker recently released from prison who labors on an oil rig and lives in a trailer.

The two foes soon find themselves the helpless pawns of bureaucrats and the media.

The wounded soldiers soon find themselves the helpless pawns of bureaucrats and media companies promoting their own agendas of spin and exploitation.

In contrast to Walsh's smoothly accomplished, invisible style, Sherman uses bold angles (including a couple of overhead shots that seem to come directly from Hitchcock) and exaggerated perspectives to create a nightmarish environment that reduces the characters to helpless pawns.

So we shuffle on, until it's too late to make any decisions at all, and we become helpless pawns in the politics of deferral, and utterly dependent on the humiliating procedures that for all our rational life we so wished to avoid.

A sense of being able to shape and influence events, with and alongside others, emerges as invigorating in exactly the same way that feeling helpless, isolated and pawn-like leads to listlessness and passivity.