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    helplessness


    1. ’ I assured her, thinking that it would have been kinder if Jack hadn’t lived to fade slowly away with emphysema – he’d not found life at all easy and it had cut me up terribly watching him degenerate into frail helplessness


    2. Ozzie had endured enough helplessness when a first year at school – that’s when he and Chas had become the pals they were … equal sufferers at the hands of the older boys


    3. He tried to imagine a storm at sea, and was carried into his own memory of the 'great storm,' and his first taste of helplessness in the face of forces beyond his strength to manage


    4. ” Her voice was quieter than certainty suggested and I looked in my father's face for some hint of salvation from my own thoughts of foreboding and helplessness


    5. of helplessness and depression


    6. To dream that you are possessed by demons indicates helplessness


    7. He vainly punched at the wall in frustration and helplessness


    8. He looked closely at her and put his hands up slowly, as if in surrender, but more in a gesture of complete helplessness and a “no-fear-from-me” routine


    9. There were groups seen on all of the ships, gazing at the Confederate, looking up at the idle sails, and one could sense a feeling of helplessness and anxiety


    10. N’robo lifted his hands in a gesture of helplessness

    11. As he lent back against the pillows, the memories flooded back, and with them the feelings of helplessness and terror that had overwhelmed him when the gun had touched his face


    12. They’d tried to kill him - run him down - and when that failed, shoot him! The scene replayed over and over in his mind, and as it did, the helplessness was slowly replaced with a deep, resentful rage


    13. Shying away everything the others threw at him, he turned to face Jules head on, with the most probable outcome being Jules turning into a cut-away cardboard version of his old self, while the rest of us looked in sympathy and complete helplessness


    14. Despair overwhelmed him as he resigned himself to the helplessness of his situation


    15. He could “see” his churches begin to stray in small ways and sometimes large, and it bothered him in his helplessness


    16. My helplessness and dullness are a part of


    17. Overcome with grief seeing his wife going astray and overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness to save her, Roger finally accepted the civil divorce at their fifth appearance in court


    18. Overcome the habit of learned helplessness


    19. The real challenge of overcoming learned helplessness, however, is realizing that you need to overcome


    20. Overcome learned helplessness Hypnotherapy audio session is an audio Hypnotherapy session created by

    21. Utter helplessness on


    22. and remaining mired in helplessness


    23. He looked to Talia with an expression of helplessness


    24. His thoughts filled up with the memory of what had happened there: the violent deaths of so many Gathandrians; the sheer presence and threat of the mind-executioner; the terror of what might be happening to Ralph; and most of all his own utter helplessness


    25. And I thought that I'd had it bad, Moshe thought, as he relived the helplessness he had felt as


    26. Closing his eyes in overwhelming helplessness, he lowered the dry guard down to his side, gassing the hot air in and out of his lungs as he hated his suffering


    27. Eberhard wore the face of a Basset Hound with aplomb, oozing helplessness and kindling the protective instinct in women who were drawn to him like moths to a candle


    28. helplessness in this controlling world we live in and create a life


    29. My helplessness is still more unbearable


    30. I looked at him with a helplessness face and also started to have doubts in relation to my outfit

    31. My eyes filled with mercy on my helplessness


    32. “I don"t know,” Foche muttered, looking up at them with clear signs of helplessness in


    33. A helplessness he has never known falls upon him with the full weight of the enormous altar stones


    34. This feeling of helplessness can be especially strong if the person lives with their abusive partner


    35. Not in the harem, where every word is monitored, every action scrutinized; where the principle emotions are fear and shame and hate and helplessness


    36. His pitiful expression and air of helplessness enabled her to make the decision


    37. These include: denial, helplessness, dislike of sex, anger, self-blame, anxiety, shame, nightmares, fear, depression, flashbacks, guilt, rationalization, mood-swings, numbness, promiscuity, loneliness, social anxiety, difficulty trusting oneself or others, difficulty concentrating


    38. Failing to derive comfort and courage from association with his fellows, this youth had sought the solitude of the hills; he had grown up with a feeling of helplessness and inferiority


    39. HELPLESSNESS CAN BECOME SO OVERWHELMING YOU LITERALLY STOP FUNCTIONING IN THE REAL WORLD


    40. " The spokesman bit on his words as he told how the husband was forced to watch in his helplessness as the thugs ripped the clothes from his wife’s body and had her thighs forcefully spread

    41. As though addressing his prayers, He appeared in his dream and expressed His helplessness


    42. As well as the shame and helplessness he felt tiredness again, much stronger this time


    43. When she approached her mother, she expressed her helplessness saying that it was his will that always prevailed in the end


    44. This afflicted man had waited all these years for somebody to help him; he was such a victim of the feeling of his own helplessness that he had never once entertained the idea of helping himself which proved to be the one thing he had to do in order to effect recovery -- take up his bed and walk


    45. A surge of helplessness shook the giant, for the first time in his life


    46. He hoped that when the bullets began flying that they would not panic because he knew from experience that when the first shot is fired fear and helplessness can replace confidence


    47. 'You hill-bred dog!' she panted, quivering with the impact of shame, anger, and the realization of helplessness


    48. Freddie did no dare look again, instead he tried hard to concentrate on his job and ignore the feeling of despair and helplessness that filled his very being


    49. She gripped her sword in her free hand, but the feel of the shagreen-bound hilt inspired only a feeling of helplessness in her


    50. Valeria's eyes rolled toward him with mute appeal, and his own helplessness sent red waves of madness surging through his brain










































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    Synonyms for "helplessness"

    helplessness impuissance weakness

    "helplessness" definitions

    powerlessness revealed by an inability to act


    the state of needing help from something


    a feeling of being unable to manage