Sentence examples for helplessness in from inspiring English sources

In extreme cases, a loss of control can lead to a condition known as learned helplessness, in which a person becomes helpless to influence his own environment.

There's a kind of helplessness in that.

There is a video showing the effect of learned helplessness in a classroom situation here.

Merethe Lindstrøm's commended Barnejegeren portrayed adults' helplessness in dealing with children's vulnerability.

There may be a frustrating sense of helplessness in that realization.

He felt a sense of helplessness in not being able to help his children.

There's an element of learned helplessness in some fathers' hammy ignorance, then.

While this work suggests man's helplessness in the face of nature's relentless power, Cai's exhibit suggests an ironic thematic reversal: nature's state of helplessness in the face of modern man's relentless, Promethean drive to progress.

He writes evocatively of "Cyprus Avenue," a song about helplessness in the face of faulty or unrealizable love.

After all, there is no helplessness in elite competition or vulnerability in pain barriers being pushed for the win.

Still, the violence symbolizes Afghanistan's helplessness in a tug-of-war over its fate among powerful outside forces.