Sentence examples for point of helplessness from inspiring English sources

Basing their accounts on interviews with British and American soldiers in the field, the papers have portrayed the Americans as Godzilla-like invaders, stumbling clumsily through foreign terrain, ill-prepared to the point of helplessness to reach out to the population they have pledged to liberate.

Such information was available from the beginning, but the court ruling has forced her defendants to the point of helplessness.

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As Lenin said in that delightful way of his, all politics boils down to the question of, 'Who eats whom.' And when the rich are fat and happy, engorged to the point of helplessness by government subsidies, then they, like the aristocrats of old, will make a delicious meal for the rest of us".

This man is in love to the point of complete helplessness (to a point of not even being afraid to talk to the girl's father!).

In the New York Times Opinionatorr post "Status and Stress," Moises Velasquez-Manoff cites research that points to a sense of helplessness and lack of control as the hallmarks of the kind of stress that kills.

Lack of information may be part of the reason, plus a sense of helplessness: what's the point of railing against something you cannot change?

"There is venality in abundance here," he writes at one point, "and the general air of surrender, of helplessness, is the most heart-breaking thing about it.

But Sandy Roger from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMC) points out that there's a "kind of helplessness pervading this space".

Isolation itself, she points out, can lead to a sense of helplessness and lack of control — feelings that are associated with some of the worst, most persistent psychological problems in any population, including bullying.

He raised the jack, pointing and giving the man a smile of helplessness.