Sentence examples for how helpless from inspiring English sources

How helpless they were, how helpless I was feeling".

I can't describe how helpless we feel".

Conor answered, clarifying precisely how helpless Ann was at the moment he took her life.

"He cried about the Twin Towers and about how helpless he felt," she said.

"At that point, he adds, "You realise just how helpless you are".

These paintings make me feel how helpless a person can be".

In her current job at Capital Guardian, she hasn't forgotten how "lost and helpless" she felt early in her career, and she sets aside time to mentor younger employees and business school students.

"The things she doesn't remember," Ms. Balbert said, only establish "how physically helpless she was, how drunk she was".

In their descriptions of the assault they told how totally helpless they felt in the hands of a man who, as well as inflicting pain, warned them that God would punish them if they told what had happened to them.

In studies of police officers, paramedics and combat veterans, Dr. Charles Marmar, a professor and vice chairman of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, has found that one of the most useful predictors of whether people developed lasting symptoms was how terrified and helpless they felt at the time, and how long they remained terrified.

According to the investigative journalist Steve Salerno, in his 2006 book Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, the various self-help talks and tapes offer a momentary boost of inspiration that fades after a few weeks.