Sentence examples for to helplessness from inspiring English sources

We can't afford it, it does no good, it leads to more war, it is a helpless and fearful response to helplessness and fear.

Drawing back into self-defense and self-interest need not mean a regression to helplessness.

Reduced to helplessness, we might turn to art to make some sense of such scenes.

Far from being optimistic, the social worker's state of mind was closer to helplessness.

Under the terms of the treaty, France and Russia became allies and divided Europe between them, reducing Austria and Prussia to helplessness.

To admit you can't, or might not be able to, is hard, and denial and magical thinking are underrated human coping devices in response to helplessness and fear.

Such increases in escape failures were suggested to correspond to learned helplessness, representing, in animals, depressive symptoms of non-responsiveness [68].

When there is nothing left to do, it is easy to fall prey to numbing helplessness and confusion.

The whole enterprise is an assertion of omnipotence and a refusal to admit helplessness, which speaks to something deep in Mamet's nature.

The CIA viewed certain techniques as "conditioning" measures, designed to get detainees used to their helplessness rather than yielding any intelligence value on their own.

But when I shrugged to indicate helplessness, she sighed and went to inspect the supplies in the fridge and the icebox.