Sentence examples for waves of helplessness from inspiring English sources

But the power of boom reaches beyond the physical and into the psychological, helping many people here along the Louisiana shore to brace against waves of helplessness and doubt.

"We're just getting waves of helplessness coming out, and yet, I don't hear people saying, 'We're not going to obey it.' " Educators on both ends of the political spectrum complain that while the law demands that they find slots in better schools, it gives them no means to create them.

When the calendar broke down, I felt a wave of helplessness.

Each new death brought a fresh wave of helplessness and isolation.

Beneath the surface, curled into a ball, knowing that position to be the path of least resistance, there was a sense of complete abandon, and simultaneously, in the womb of the wave, a sense of helplessness and trust.

"I went through the training, but I have no idea what will actually happen," said one clerk, waving her hands in a gesture of helplessness.

There is a sense of helplessness, being stranded amongst cresting waves.

The hard-line Islamic clerics who lead the Taliban showed signs, too, of fostering a new wave of hunger and helplessness among Afghanistan's 26 million people, by issuing a decree threatening death to any relief worker caught using a satellite telephone.

Not the sense of helplessness.

"It's the feeling of helplessness.

A look of helplessness crossed his face.