Sentence examples for our helplessness from inspiring English sources

In public, we acknowledge our helplessness willingly, almost with relief.

What counts, it seems, is the feeling that our helplessness is being acknowledged.

I look at our helplessness before nature, before the cosmos…" Shechter smiles.

But look at who has told us these lies to cultivate our fury and our helplessness – lying liars who lie.

When we do that, their mortality and our grief and our helplessness becomes closer to us and more apparent.

THE PLAYS of Samuel Beckett mirror the unfathomable grip of life, our helplessness and inadequacy as we try to figure out what it's all about.

But we are all being subjected to the same sort of experiment - and will be until we overcome our "learned helplessness" and get up on our hind legs again.

These setbacks, after the virtually uninterrupted Southern successes of 1861, caused many across the Confederacy to wonder, in the words of the South Carolina diarist Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, if "these reversals and terrible humiliations … come from Him to humble our hearts and remind us of our total helplessness without His aid".

We must apologize and repent on our own; we must also recognize our own helplessness to make up for what we have done.

We continue to be paranoid, gripped by fear of the unknown, shocked by our own helplessness, stunned by how swiftly one world can turn into a darker one where everything can seem familiar yet foreign.

Its beauty was that it was – like Claire herself – full of doubt and honesty, about its own function, its own fragmentary aesthetic, about what we mean by society, and our flailing helplessness in the face of unexpected violence.