Sentence examples for helpless to understand from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, they are, if not unsympathetic narrators, utterly unreliable ones; they barely see Cicero and Hannah and Phebe, whose motives they are helpless to understand and to which they are, despite their protestations to the contrary, indifferent.

And while I am generalizing, the truth is that the current generation has no language to discuss racial conflict and are nearly helpless to understand, address and respond to continued racism.

Foundational to the reasoning informing Francis Chan's videommercial for his new book is the oft-presented premise that, when it comes to hell, we mere mortals are helpless to understand the mysteries of God's justice.

"We were very young," she said, "and you have to understand how helpless we felt".

Begin to understand them, because without understanding, this child is helpless.

This is not at all the same as a life of constant fear, but it's enough to understand not wanting to feel that helpless again.

They are not responding for two basic reasons: the debate is too complex and remote; and they feel helpless about it in any case, even if they took time to understand it.

With so many non-dairy options available, it's hard to understand why we would force these gentle mothers and helpless babies to endure all of this pain, this psychological torment and physical deprivation.

And despite a heartfelt desire to understand what is happening and to comfort a sick or injured loved one, too often relatives and friends feel helpless and marginalized by the hospital system.

4. We must understand (time and cycles, remember) that we are helpless to do anything but attempt to manage this situation optimally and by the use of compromise - because we have no alternative.

Reporters understand how this process works, but they've usually been helpless to do anything about it.