Sentence examples for helpless that from inspiring English sources

"It's learned helplessness," he says, "and when you feel helpless, that's a recipe for depression".

As he continues to struggle against the dark suck of addiction, we see vividly how degraded a person of great talent and heart can become, and how helpless that leaves the people who love him.

The city seemed helpless that first terrible night.

They're so used to feeling helpless that it doesn't occur to them to be outraged".

It was when he said the word "helpless" that I suddenly understood.

When pressed, they suggest that they are helpless, that the sovereign Congolese government has the responsibility to arrest Bosco.

Dada, disco, punk, dystopian, queer, postmodern, each gesture helpless in that blank light, the undenial that he'd been thinking anything profound at all.

Time's Walter Isaacson wrote, Israeli attacks on West Beirut reinforced the impression that the U.S. is a helpless giant that can neither influence Israeli actions nor come to grips with events in the Middle East.

In a solo for a wounded soldier, he repeatedly jumps up with a helpless rhythm that catches the heart.

The student: chubby with the helpless bulk that came from psychiatric drugs, not from excess of enjoyment.

She has a birdlike head, a sharp nose, and an air of helpless innocence that is almost entirely put on.