Sentence examples for seems helpless from inspiring English sources

The Islamabad government seems helpless to halt Balochistan's slide into chaos.

Just seems helpless in trying to get more out of his talent from his decimated Defense, which is meager.

As he talks about how his Scotland players should consider victory over Brazil today within reach of their imagination, the optimism seems helpless in the face of some franker considerations.

Mr. Pine, who delivers Peter's confessions in a flood of bluster he seems helpless to control (and in a resonant voice that recalls Jason Robards), does the best work here.

Cut off from her trust fund (her dad was jailed for running a Ponzi scheme), Caroline seems helpless at first, but her entitlement turns out to be a kind of superpower — she believes that she and Max deserve a better life.

The professorial, slightly bumbling figure of Benjamin Charles J. Robyy) seems helpless against the fierce figures around him: the beautiful Lauren LoGiudice as Arendt; Lutin Tanner, now as a dandy, now as the hunchback; and particularly Félix Gardón, who first appears as a manic, cross-dressing personification of cabaret decadence and then, only slightly toned down, as Kafka.

And Gore seemed helpless to respond.

The Browns seemed helpless at times.

The city seemed helpless that first terrible night.

Against them, the Red Sox had seemed helpless while their own rotation had been hit or miss.

When they do not, they seem helpless even against a team that has also been reeling.