It was helpless with Burke there.
The man with such extraordinary technical knowledge of fires was helpless with more mundane tasks.
At times I was helpless with my return – it was very difficult to read his serve and he was very aggressive.
While I don't want to be helpless, with someone else dressing and feeding me, what might I want – or feel – if these things came not to matter?
"There I was, helpless, with no gun and this German platoon walking towards us," said Mr. Kisse, a 91-year-old former infantryman from Pittsburgh, recalling his encounter in 1999.
Ian Johnson, the publicist for the series, believed that the European judges did not understand the farcical humour in the episode, noting that the British delegates to the festival were "helpless with laughter".
Embarrassment when it isn't purely selfish is helpless identification with the indignity of someone else's pain, but you can't be embarrassed on behalf of a monster.
"Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon," said Agnes Repplier, and she could have put "youth" for "art" at the sentence's head.
That North Korea says it has harvested a nuclear reactor for weapons fuel is an alarming development, particularly when it is appearing more and more that the United States is helpless to bargain with the North Koreans or, as a last resort, to threaten military action.
The day before, acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov said his government is "helpless" in dealing with the security situation in eastern Ukraine.
