Sentence examples for helpless yearning from inspiring English sources

In the 2010 clip of the Act 1 Mirror Duet below, dancer Alina Cojocaru makes eloquent use of her material, her body heavy and helpless in the grip of Tatiiana's helpless yearning for Onegin or skimming the air with near-hallucinatory lightness.

This framework gives the piece a subtle tension, as Rafferty's tale of drink-destroyed lives and helpless yearning for home is interwoven with references to the narrator's more settled circumstances (as she herself becomes the listener in the chair, absorbing Rafferty's account).

Mr. Neville, with his ethereal falsetto and his way of splintering a melody into little yearning curlicues, brought out all the longing in "Helpless".

Sexual yearning?

Less helpless.

Feeling helpless.

Townspeople helpless.

Yearning, exhausted lead vocals?

The yearning went global.

My yearning seems foolish.

In the yearning.