Sentence examples for helpless response from inspiring English sources

There's pathos in Arcell Cabuag's helpless response to the pain of others, his light touching of Clarice Young's shoulder and in the stiff-legged stutter step of Mr. Brown following Ms. Roberts.

The open arms we all remember at the time masqueraded as a forceful act, but, in reality, were only a helpless response to an inevitability.

Like Seligman, Dweck and Ellen Leggett offer insights on moving from a "helpless" response pattern to one that is "mastery-oriented".

Second, carers may feel helpless in response to such demands: they do not lead to any clear action or even decisions.

Worry is prevalent in cancer and, although a certain level is considered normal and adaptive, individuals who experience high levels of generalized worry are more like to feel helpless in response to their concerns (Parle, Jones, & Maguire, 1996) and to develop more negative illness perceptions (Lehto & Cimprich, 2009).

We can't afford it, it does no good, it leads to more war, it is a helpless and fearful response to helplessness and fear.

Similarly, clinicians confronted with patients' desire for death in studies of physician assisted suicide (also only qualitative), elicited anxious, helpless, and overwhelmed responses most prominently [ 35].

Giving them the power and making you helpless, waiting for his response that you will never get in return.

I had arrived to meet him so determined to avoid any inappropriate response (tears, anger, helpless laughter at the Oz-like hush) that I had shut down all response.

"Everything I write is about power and helplessness and somebody being helpless and their journey to power," Whedon said in response.

This helpless behavior seems to be a characteristic response to a challenge by students without self-regulation skills, who tend to be low-achieving students (Isaacson and Fujita, 2006).