helplessness

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• Shocked and helpless, floating prey made easy pickings for the mass of eels.

• The then helpless, floating prey make easy pickings for the mass of eels.

• Just as we would start to fall asleep, it would blare for a minute or two and then stop, and we were helpless to fix it.

• In 1943, Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz proposed what he called “baby schema”—an evolutionary adaptation that encourages us to care for helpless infants.

• “It’s a whole cycle of annoyance and feeling helpless and hopeless,” Eli said.

• You may have felt, like I did, lots of emotions—but the most dangerous of them is helplessness.

• The brokenness of the political system drives the former, and helplessness drives the latter.

• A feeling of helplessness and its resulting paralysis are the enemy of the Good.

• “I was humiliated at the thought of my helplessness,” he said.

• We entangle them in a web of fear, of helplessness and anguish.

• He was aware of his own helplessness; he felt almost like a boy scolding his own wise, affectionate mother.

• "I ask no promise from you," continued the excited and suspicious man, writhing under a sense of his helplessness.

• Mamma trusted to me to be a mother to them, papa looks to me, and I so unfit, besides this helplessness.