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Helplessness
"Helplessness" in a Sentence (12 examples)
We will have to get over the feeling of helplessness.
Some speculators take advantage of the ignorance and helplessness of old people.
His helplessness appeals to her motherly sympathy.
That is a policy of weakness, helplessness, and complete confusion.
She is bound with her helplessness.
Helplessness made me cry.
Helplessness brought me to tears.
There is—in world affairs—a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Near-synonyms: powerlessness, impotence
From the most ancient times to the present, in the crudest primitive tribe or the most magnificently ornamented civilization, man has found himself in a state of awed helplessness when confronted by the phenomena of strange illnesses or aberrations.
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ADAM: 'You are faced with overwhelming power. Accept your helplessness.'
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
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