The future seemed dark indeed, and the feeling of helplessness was hard to bear.
Marcia had little, feminine ways ofhelplessness which turned flatteringly to the strength of the other sex.
Helplessness should be a passport to a ruler's care, but it had become a mark for murderous attack.
It hints at tremors and feebleness, at alternations of feeling like the flutter of some weak-winged songster, at the utter helplessness of the panting creature in the toils.
I perceived that my tale excited his compassion, and I continued with new zeal to paint to him the helplessnessof this girl.
To vest himself with this office was the conduct which her youth and helplessness prescribed to her friend.
I figured to myself nothing but the helplessness of disease, or the insensibility of death.
Her death added to thehelplessness and distraction of the family.
It denoted a force of mind little in unison with that simplicity and helplessness which this girl had hitherto displayed.
Gibraltar was speedily pronounced impracticable, but Minorca seemed to be in a state of helplessness that tempted a resolute foe, and Fort St. Philip was suddenly invested.
He became frantic as he reflected upon her helplessness and the restraints that prevented him from flying to her assistance.
That man is widely different from other animals in the length of his adolescence and the utter helplessness of his babyhood, is an equally familiar fact.
But this period of helplessness has to be viewed under another aspect.
And after the first flush of freedom wore off, and his true helplessness dawned on the freedman, he came back and picked up his hoe, and old master still doled out his bacon and meal.
Their opponents with a like helplessness merely reversed the situation.
In the midst of unworthiness and helplessness there springs up the consciousness of reconciliation.
And as the girl faced him a sudden sense of helplessness overwhelmed her.
MacNair returned her gaze unflinchingly and again the girl felt an indescribable sense of smallness--of helplessness before this man of the North, whose very presence breathed strength and indomitable man-power.
Day after day her loneliness and helplessness became more agonizing.
Meantime the little post with its quaint cabins and its dilapidated block-house, called Fort Sackville, lay sunning drowsily by the river in a blissful state of helplessness from the military point of view.
He thought he had never seen her in a mood of beauty more completely enthralling than this one of helplessnessand bravery combined.
Something in her helplessnessappealed to his innate chivalry.
He was strangely moved by her beauty and some unexplained helplessness of her plight, vouchsafed to his senses, yet he recognized a certain need for caution.
The shock of it is like a deep stab; it not merely tortures, but it instantly sickens; the anguish is much, but the sense of helplessness is more; the lover who is refused feels not unlike the soldier who is wounded to death.
Clara, all the tender helplessness of Spanish girlhood appealing from her eyes.
His helplessness moved her; he had been marked by such vigor and energy, and it was strange to see him unable to move.
Sadie studied him with a feeling of helplessness that changed to contemptuous pity.
To stand aloof is to be isolated, and isolation means helplessness against danger.
A fierce glance shot from his eye; and then the recollection of his present helplessness came, in season, to restrain the resentment of the offended officer.
Her torn canvas was blowing about in disorder, many important ropes beat against her masts unheeded, and the vessel itself drove before the breeze in the helplessness of a wreck.
It was little he knew of May, with her fond family attachments, and her helplessness when left to herself in common things.
Her husband did not know the hours of wakeful uncertainty and helplessness and despair that Mrs. Gray spent, as she lay long into the nights thinking and thinking, until sometimes it seemed that she would go mad.
Hogg says that he was "pre-eminently a ladies' man," meaning that he had that childlike helplessness and sincerity which go straight to the hearts of women.
A tidal wave gathering itself mountain high and crashing down upon one's helplessness might be as easily defied.
Beginning to be conscious of a curious sense of weakness, Selden lay and stared at her in a helplessness which might have been considered pathetic.
Like all men of limited culture, Gilbert felt hishelplessness keenly.
In spite of the disgust which his gross physical appearance, and the contempt which his awkward helplessness inspired, she was conscious of a lurking sense of amusement.
The enormous rapidity of reproduction in the family of aphides is the true cause of our helplessness before them.
Alas, however, for the helplessness of crabs, and the rapacity and cunning of all-appropriating man!
On the whole, it will be clear, I think, to the impartial reader from this rapid survey that the helplessness and awkwardness of a fish out of water has been much exaggerated by the thoughtless generalisation of unscientific humanity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helplessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: desertion; desolation; disability; exposure; impotence; liability; openness; susceptibility
