Sentence examples for so helpless that from inspiring English sources

The depressed poor perceive themselves to be supremely helpless -- so helpless that they neither seek nor embrace support.

So helpless that when Hahn the Younger began airing ads designed to exploit the racial fears that white San Fernando Valley conservatives harbored toward Mr. Villaraigosa, he could do so without putting his own African-American base at risk.

Professor Emmachild said she doubted that the battering and psychological abuse Ms. Nussbaum had endured during her 10-year relationship with Mr. Steinberg left her so helpless that she could not have come to the aid of the child, Lisa.

"It is embarrassing for grownups to admit they're so helpless that a child is caring for them," said Kim Shifren, a psychology professor at Towson University, who studies child caregivers and was one herself.

She looked so alone, and I felt so helpless, that I almost burst into tears.

As if the universe offered to step in and help me, to pull me down so low and make me so helpless that I had no choice but to stop, think, and take a different route.

No wonder he felt so helpless at the controls.

But few things make a person feel so helpless as water that won't stop running over things one takes for granted, like floors.

Caroline is so helpless and dumb that she sometimes teeters on the verge of becoming sympathetic.

"This is one of the only times when I have ever had this experience of feeling so helpless about something that I care so much about," Ms. Compton said.

A geological epoch is required to rid it of a single error, and it is so helpless and cowardly that every fresh boon it receives, every lift upon its slow journey upward, must come to it as a free gift from its betters as a gift not only free, but also forced.