Sentence examples for long helpless from inspiring English sources

Ask her what she thinks King's or Malcolm X's agenda would be now, and she releases a long, helpless breath.

There was a long helpless pause, and Mau felt the two lumps of bad, dreadful bread sitting in his stomach planning their escape.

Does the man we've watched plunging long knives into helpless victims for eight seasons require punishment, no matter how charming and sometimes heroic he's been?

Finally, we had a strong, independent princess, but why did all of the male characters have to be the butt of the joke (sometimes literally!)? Sure, we've come a long way since helpless, naïve Snow White ate that poisoned apple and had to be awakened by a kiss from her Prince Charming.

But military power in the long run remains helpless in the face of determined moves by disgruntled citizens to regain what they see as dignity, freedom and rights.

"Women lighting long cigarettes renders men helpless", says one page on MySpace.

The smaller fish around it were liquidating every bond in sight, but Long-Term was a helpless bloated whale surrounded by deadly piranhas," Lowenstein reports.

For a long time, exiles have felt helpless.

Readers discovered Wolverine to be a dangerous loner in the tradition of the western antihero; he has no compunctions about killing, but he treats the helpless well (as long as they cause him no trouble).

Pretty much all the cliches of the fairytale (the noble prince, the helpless princess) have long been satirised, in everything from The Princess Bride to Shrek to the Zog books by the brilliant Julia Donaldson.

It's been a long time since I felt helpless, panicked, visceral fear.