Varese's "Tuning Up" and the "Atmospheres" and "Lontano" by Ligeti, on the other hand, make a show of helplessness.
He did his mime-artist's shrug, lifting high his shoulders and pulling down the corners of his mouth in a show of helplessness.
They show the helplessness of both men and animals when faced by the enormities of a rampant and hostile natural world.
As you try blaming the computer for eating your homework, you shrug your shoulders and expose your palms as a show of helplessness.
An aching, wistful version of Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do?" near the end of the show evoked helplessness and confusion in the face of environmental destruction.
Knowing full well what we should have done, we still couldn't bestir ourselves to act and chose instead to throw up our hands and put on a show of helplessness and victimization.
Her elaborate set pieces make a show of helplessness and vulnerability, boxing her slight, blond figure inside a glass cube in her propulsive hit "Just Dance"; encasing it in a rotating series of orbs during the brooding "Bad Romance"; and in her most twisted image, chaining her hair to a black pole controlled by two men in "Paparazzi".
In the previous issue of Arthritis Research and Therapy, Brionez and colleagues show that helplessness, depression, and passive coping account for significant variability in self-reported functional limitations in patients with ankylosing spondylitis, beyond the effect of age, inflammation and radiographic damage.
In our study, smokers showed greater helplessness than non-smokers.
Make an entrance that shows your helplessness.
