Sentence examples for state of helplessness from inspiring English sources

The work of Cai Guo-Qiang suggests nature's state of helplessness in the face of modern man's relentless, Promethean drive to progress.

While this work suggests man's helplessness in the face of nature's relentless power, Cai's exhibit suggests an ironic thematic reversal: nature's state of helplessness in the face of modern man's relentless, Promethean drive to progress.

Here are some tips on how to shift your support from a state of helplessness to a space of helpfulness.

Its reality traps them in a situation of one anxiety after another, or close to constant state of helplessness and fear.

I've seen with my own eyes how our unjust immigration system tears these families apart, separating mothers and fathers from their children and leaving all involved in a state of helplessness and despair.

In his book, Dr. Seligman suggests from his research that we can go from a state of helplessness to a state of optimism where we feel like we have some level of control.

Many of them watched in states of helplessness, as though realizing for the first time where they were and what they were doing.

It could, for example, acknowledge and describe various and specific states of helplessness, heightened affect, and hyper-vigilance into which people are rendered when they are targeted for being less than manly, or less than desirable to men.

For years the city council has wrung its hands in a state of bewildered helplessness as public awareness of this gateway to hell in their midst has grown.

According to an eyewitness, one psychologist advising on the treatment of Zubaydah, James Mitchell, argued that he needed to be reduced to a state of "learned helplessness".

A person in a state of learned helplessness is someone who is passive, someone who has abandoned all active will and desire.