She also relates the feelings of helplessness that can be experienced by rape victims.
"There is a certain helplessness that comes from dealing with the malfunctioning state at the street level," Mr. Varshney said.
His book — not quite fact but not quite fiction — may be another lifeline back from a kind of helplessness that is its own death chamber.
But even they must be feeling the sense of helplessness that is palpable on Capitol Hill as they struggle for a way out.
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.
Ms. Bissett fully intends to exacerbate the sense of helplessness that is always to some extent part of being a passive spectator.
The echo, here, is of Freud, who writes, in his great essay on the uncanny, about "the sense of helplessness" that is caused by such unsettling repetitions.
Although what the play says is true, it omits the concern and sense of helplessness that made her, like most people, paradoxical.
We all love a loser and Fox has a dithering helplessness that suggests he would make a wonderful Konstantin in The Seagull.
Bútora talked about the combination of civic indifference and civic helplessness that has paralysed politics in the new democracies, again something that we know about.
Mr. Adler, as the befuddled dad and husband, employs his great rubbery face in expressions of helplessness that have been funny forever.
