Sentence examples for pretty 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.
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.
'I think they are all pretty much of a muchness.
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.
He has a big beard, dresses in traditional tribal gear and hugs pretty much everyone he meets, whether they're the most intimidating person in the whole wide world or merely just little old helpless you.
