helplessness

How To Use helplessness In A Sentence

• I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I watched her being wheeled into the operating theatre.
• I wanted, desperately needed for him to reach across the line that he had drawn, and so it was with dumb horror that I watched him retreat, his expression turning lawyerly even as I read the helplessness in his eyes. Dreaming in French
• The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure. The Schoolmistress and other stories
• The themes of separation and helplessness are probably objectifications of his own grief over the loss of his wife.
• Individuals can respond to these experiences with intense fear, horror or a sense of helplessness.
• Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness. The Secrets of Musical Confidence
• They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
• What this film does get right is the utter helplessness of man when pitted against a shark in a battle of life or death.
• To teach them to embrace dependency on the government is to embrace learned helplessness.
• He drew long, soft, angry breaths, waiting mute and dangerous inside his helplessness like a beast in its lair.