Sentence examples for sweet helpless from inspiring English sources
She appears on the Glyndebourne stage this summer, portrayed by Danielle de Niese, in an unfamiliar character: that of a sweet helpless girl desperately in need of a male protector.
Sometimes the potency of cultural icons lies in the ghosts of the emotions exiled by their radical simplicity -- the sissy in John Wayne, the nerd in James Dean and the part of sweet, helpless Marilyn Monroe that was, after all, the captain of her soul.
This is especially tricky for new parents because we're unlikely, or unwilling (thankfully), to direct our anger at our sweet, helpless infants.
With one child graduating college this spring and the other halfway through law school, it's sometimes hard to imagine they were once sweet, tiny, helpless babies.
I'm also not longing for the baby days -- though there is something genuinely sweet about holding a helpless baby whose needs are generally easily fulfilled -- I'm mostly content with the stage my boys are in now.
Afterwards all accountability was lost, in a complacent helpless country medicated by the sweet syrup of cable television and air conditioning.
She addressed him "Sweet Robin", longing for his letters and helpless about his moodiness and depression.
But this was McCarty's quarter, if not his night, so he went up for a dunk and earned sweet payback, rendering the 6-foot-11 O'Neal helpless and raising the din in the Fleet Center several dozen decibels.
Seated at the deathbed of her rancorous, obscenity-spewing husband (played with wonderful, helpless dudgeon by Mr. Latessa), Rita ladles out sweet-and-sour reassurance.
It was as sweet as a plum; a dipping volley right off my laces that left the goalkeeper helpless – confused and gaping, like a teenaged giraffe coming face to face with a mirror for the first time.
