Sentence examples for helplessness before from inspiring English sources

Their helplessness before the two worst poisons known to man: self-importance and cheap drinks.

I hated the constant sense of helplessness before vast forces, the continuous threat of failure.

I look at our helplessness before nature, before the cosmos…" Shechter smiles.

This history lesson seems particularly pertinent in light of Secretary Thompson's claim of helplessness before the almighty drug patent.

This opera is Janacek's loving yet clear-eyed paean to natural forces and a reminder of man's helplessness before them.

This is Janacek's loving yet cleareyed paean to natural forces and a reminder of man's helplessness before them.

The helplessness of Washington before a client state with an economy in freefall was little short of stunning.

Reading Alexievich, you face the helplessness of the individual before insurmountable geopolitical forces: "I pace and pace in circles of pain.

The truth, by most reasonable tellings, is less sensational: Benedict was at John Paul II's side as he slid into helplessness in the years before his death, and saw the disorientation that a dying Pope could sow among his flock.

You can't bury under the horrendous-depravity-brutal-ugliness blanket, the true face of bigotry painted by Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary, or the helplessness Melinda feels in Speak before she learns that what was done to her wasn't her fault, and wasn't right.

"As a white dude, I'd never had everyone ignore my problems before," he says, arguing that the helplessness he experienced in this relationship gave him an insight into what those less privileged must suffer all the time.