These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'helpless.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 The movie, starring Linda Blair as the possessed girl and Ellen Burstyn as her helpless mother, scandalized viewers with its relentless procession of terrors. 2023 Culture wars that many of us feel helpless to stop. Though there are certainly emotional components to helplessness, researchers typically focus on the cognitive and behavioral components. When we feel as though nothing we do will have any effect on our circumstances, nothing is what we typically choose to do.
Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2023 In episode 6, a defiant but helpless Vipsania, desperately in love with her husband Tiberius remains trapped, but needs to regain control of her fate and her husband’s fate as Augustus (Matthew McNulty) puts out the order for Tiberius to marry Julia (Liah O’Prey). (A Definition) Helplessness is the belief that you lack agency in a situation. Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 24 July 2023 In 2019, their cameras caught a coyote striding toward it, staring down a helpless chick. 2023 By the end of Friday’s proceedings, Roberson described feeling helpless in the months following the shooting, saying her son needs mental help.
Rotimi Adeoye, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023 While enacting federal legislation is essential for fully restoring the strength of the VRA, states are not completely helpless. 2023 That somebody could make me, in that moment, feel helpless. Recent Examples on the Web Add a language barrier, and recent immigrants and their families can feel helpless, says Jagdish Khubchandani, a professor of public health at New Mexico State University and lead researcher on the adult Latino suicide study.
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