Sentence examples for much helpless from inspiring English sources

"The stock took a tremendous drop, and we were pretty much helpless".

So she's pretty much helpless when a male teacher plies her with poetry, compliments and (most seductive of all) revelations about his past.

"We suddenly recognized that while netizens may be all powerful on the Internet, they are very much helpless in real life," said Mr. Zhai, the team leader.

John Calvin and his heirs (think Thomas Hooker, Cotton Mather and my grandmother, Alma Cotton) believed chances for atonement and salvation were limited, regarded humans as pretty much helpless to do anything about it.

Dan Aykroyd gives a glum and largely personality-free reading of Yogi, while the human actors who signed on to fill the space around the computer-animated bears — including Tom Cavanagh as Ranger Smith, Anna Faris as the environmentally minded filmmaker and Andrew Daly as the nasty mayor — are pretty much helpless.

"I pretty much was helpless.

At times Arthur looks so small engulfed in all that darkness, and so helpless, much like one of the children who haunt the story without investing it with much feeling.

At times it reads like nothing so much as a helpless plea for the presence of fact checkers at publishing houses, however cutback-conscious they may be.

For decades, the Barneys New York Warehouse Sale has fed the helpless as much as those in the know.

NOT SEEING THE BALL Infielder Wilson Betemit looked helpless for much of spring training, with 17 strikeouts in 54 at-bats.

But man as he is, in many respects helpless, in much imperfect, and in all feeble, when viewed individually, is still capable of social elevation such as society has not yet beheld.