Sentence examples for into helplessness from inspiring English sources

You were plunged from normal existence into helplessness.

I will not stand by and let more queer kids tumble head first into helplessness, never to resurface.

A hospital stay follows along with an operation, a grim prognosis, a slide into helplessness, the expected accumulation of humiliations, natural and not, and swells of emotion.

The truth, by most reasonable tellings, is less sensational: Benedict was at John Paul II's side as he slid into helplessness in the years before his death, and saw the disorientation that a dying Pope could sow among his flock.

That first arc ends with the murderously bad trip at the Altamont free concert in late 1969, where the authority they had earned with their half-serious, half-play-acting, all-theatrical bravado around themes of wickedness, violence, and intoxication melted into helplessness and fear in the face of the real violence of real Hell's Angels.

In the ensemble around her, everyone is convincing, from Mr. Marks, who allows Asa's undemonstrative presumption to unravel subtly into helplessness, to Ms. White, who turns a teenage girl into an earnestly self-assured mediator, the family's best hope for emotional guidance.

We must recognize and accept our vulnerability while transforming anxiety into attentiveness, and helplessness into effective activity.

But she quickly adds that she doesn't want to know the answer, and her bright professorial composure melts into ashen helplessness.

The wind serves as metaphor for both mental illness, which is invisible but bluntly felt, and Ms. Ahtila's protagonist, who, rather than sliding into hysterical helplessness, trashes her apartment.

Running toward the camera, as well as toward his death, Mr. Widmark allows his face to go slack and his limbs to loosen; he seems to become a panicked child before our eyes, shrinking into infantile helplessness.

But as the dancers repeat the gesture it starts to expand into an idea: helplessness.