Sentence examples for helplessness from from inspiring English sources

She can still taste the residue of helplessness from those sieges.

And spreading right along with the oil is a pervasive and dismaying sense of helplessness from our leaders in Washington.

The psychology, even amid biological factors, of depression and other mental disorders always involves the working through of childhood traumatic events, or chronic helplessness from unresponsive caretaking environments.

Like a spreading infection, managers pass on learned helplessness from group to group and level to level.

The boy here, knowing the kitten's fate is ultimately not his to decide, takes comfort in his awful helplessness from the very creature he seeks to protect: he rubs his cheek against its soft fur, consoling himself with its touch.

In the video, Sarkeesian deftly performs an impressively detailed dissection of the damsel in distress trope, which she defines as a reduction of female characters "to a state of helplessness" from which they require "rescuing by a typically male hero for the benefit of his story arc".

"Pelléas," Debussy's profound meditation on human helplessness, is from any observation point discreet, not to mention enigmatic, paradoxical and oblique.

They are in a state of learned helplessness, pushed from one desk to the next with interminable demands for different certificates or yet more evidence of need.

A sense of helplessness resulted from the reinforcement of white privilege by law enforcement, magnifying disrespect of the justice system.

These assets build her resilience and override feelings of "helplessness" arising from patients who do not adhere to treatment and ignore her advice and recommendations.

"The motivation to set up the site came from a general feeling of helplessness that stemmed from seeing our old neighbourhood at the centre of the riots when we were halfway across the world," Mr Pytik said.