Sentence examples similar to state of defenselessness from inspiring English sources

The table becomes a bed — that great symbol of closeness, of defenselessness — and Marianne 1 curls up on it.

But if you want to effect a breach in that stolid edifice the human personality I think it helps to cultivate this Kierkegaardian sense of defenselessness.

"But it's something?" He shrugged and opened his hands in a gesture of defenselessness, squinting in the smoke from the roll-up that wagged in his mouth.

Cruise delivers all that and a quality of defenselessness that is terribly touching.

"There is a permanent sense of defenselessness and despair that adds to the anger and fear caused by the complicity, forced or willing, of some authorities with organized crime," the bishops wrote in the context of the rise of the vigilante movement.

This creates an appearance of defenselessness that may be a powerful inhibitor of further aggression [7].

state of mind".

Tripura, state of India.

Assam, state of India.

This state of grace.

state of affairs.