Sentence examples for helplessness of having from inspiring English sources

The most unpleasant memory is of utter helplessness, of having my every need attended to because I was incapable of doing anything for myself.

These intense feelings of guilt can produce feelings of helplessness and a feeling of having lost control.

Nan's decline had been gradual, so I had not realised until now that an old person can be reduced to helplessness – can reach the stage of having to be looked after – almost overnight.

Over pulverising, stuttering digital noise grenades, she opens with the helplessness of "I've been waiting for you to die" but ends up at "I want to start again".

It is also a manifestation of the sense of helplessness over having a leader not endorsed by us, but by Beijing, and having little say in how our territory is run.

IN what Ms. Shin says is probably the most important sentence in her novel, the missing mother expresses what many guilt-ridden readers imagine as their own mothers' sense of helplessness at having been effectively abandoned by their children.

This feeling of helplessness has translated into a culture of distrust for Student Health Services that extends well beyond their treatment of mental health.

Brazilian anthropologist Spensy Kmitta Pimentel has described the events as "protest suicides" that come as "a result of an experience of helplessness" that has become common to the Guaraní.

As catnip to scholars because of her talent and her air of helplessness, Rhys has attracted much academic attention and has been the subject of at least one major biography, "Jean Rhys: Life and Work," by Carole Angier.

In that sense, it's a way of combating the pervasive feelings of helplessness that have become so demoralizing and so destructive to our long-term interests.

President Bush must assert leadership here, and reassure travelers that neither politics nor a sense of helplessness has overtaken the federal effort to secure the skies.