Sentence examples for overwhelming helplessness from inspiring English sources

This feeling of overwhelming helplessness permeates Ladette Randolph's quietly moving first novel, "A Sandhills Ballad".

The man had lost his mother when he was 6 and the family had gone through difficult times, when he felt an overwhelming helplessness.

Dr. Calvin Chou, author of an editorial accompanying the study and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, believes that overtreating patients stems not from an active desire to do or gain something, but rather from a sense of overwhelming helplessness.

People who spend many years in institutions tend to develop an overwhelming sense of helplessness.

But there is an overwhelming feeling of helplessness, knowing we'll probably never find the real truth.

Among Nepal's poorest and most marginalised people, the Tamang are living through the consequences of this tragedy with an overwhelming sense of helplessness.

Ono's humble mantras provide blueprints for avoiding dangerous thought patterns and overwhelming feelings of helplessness.

And the rejection and contempt she continued to experience at the hands of officers only fueled the overwhelming sense of helplessness she felt.

Whether by instinct or by intention, it benefits the regime, whose goal is to create an overwhelming feeling of shared helplessness in the population at large: we will detain you and take away your green card or, no, now we won't take away your green card, but we will hold you here, and we may let you go, or we may not.

Meanwhile, having an injured child is terrifying enough - the feeling of helplessness so overwhelming.

Those who work with the terminally ill often become numb when their grief, loss and helplessness feel overwhelming and become unproductive.