They cried with resentment and sank into helplessness.

We will have to get over the feeling of helplessness.

Some speculators take advantage of the ignorance and helplessness of old people.

By displaying despair, helplessness and hopelessness, the media is telling the truth about Africa, and nothing but the truth.

'Demoiselle' simply means 'young lady' while 'détresse' means, roughly, anxiety or despair caused by a sense of abandonment, helplessness or danger.

Africa has immense opportunities that never navigate through the web of despair and helplessness that the Western media largely presents to its audience.

We allow them to enjoy themselves a while in the world and then We shall drive them in utter helplessness to a harsh chastisement.

In such helplessness, the human being realizes that it is God who is the true Guardian and His rewards and recompense are the best.

Simply put, when the impulse is to change the world, the academy is more likely to engender a learned helplessness than to create a sense of empowerment.

In men of his class, vigor and resolution are entirely a physical matter, and ooze out with the flowing of the blood and the gigantic fellow really looked piteous in his helplessness.

But actually, I mean, this feeling of helplessness comes in because most Americans actually feel that oil prices are the result of a conspiracy, not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market.

All that is really required to fulfill the Damsel in Distress trope is for a female character to be reduced to a state of helplessness from which she requires rescuing by a typically male hero for the benefit of his story arc.