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Sentences ending with helplessness

He was touched with helplessness. [11]
Was not that what she meant when she bewailed her woman's helplessness? [8]
Mind and body were on the verge of helplessness. [11]
I read them twice over, and then, despite the lateness of the hour, I sat staring at the candles, reflecting upon my own helplessness. [9]
He slept as though he had been upon a long journey in which the body was worn to helplessness. [11]
His being seemed suspended in an atmosphere of misery and helplessness. [11]
It was as if this one precious woman I had so desperately pursued had, in the capture, lost her identity, had mysteriously become just woman, in all her significance, yes, and helplessness. [9]
He wore no hat, his hands were making involuntary gestures of helplessness. [11]
I had never before seen him nervous, never before so restless and anxious, probably never before in all his career had he been unnerved with a sense of his own helplessness. [4]
Merely being too attractive has often been confounded with a love of flirtation and conquest, unbecoming always in a man, and excused in a woman on the ground of her helplessness. [4]

Short sentences using helplessness

Pity my helplessness. [5]

Sentences containing helplessness two or more times

I am in love with life, and I wish to live to be old, very old, that I will have known it all, from helplessness to helplessness again, missing nothing, even though much be sad to feel and bear. [11]

More example sentences with the word helplessness in them

Then the eyes would grow pitiful at my helplessness, and she would murmur my name. [9]
His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
Dependence and helplessness were ever with her a far sorer trial than hard, racking pain. [14]
The instinctive bringing to life was there, and the divining helplessness and the terrible accusation of the stricken. [13]
The scheme of the assault may have been: First--To terrify me by making me conscious of my own helplessness after making actual though not legal threats against my life. [5]
She heard again that voice, she saw again that inspired face; but the impression most indelible with her was the prostrate form, the pallid countenance, the helplessness of this man whose will had before been strong enough to compel the obedience of his despised body. [4]
Afterwards in the strange confusion, in my blind helplessness I tried to say, "But he loved me," and I tried to forgive you. [11]
But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. [5]
The problem of poverty and helplessness and incapacity seemed to her more hopeless than when she began. [4]
And when I pictured my uncle soothing him to his face, and grinning behind his bed-curtains, my anger would scald me, and the realization of my helplessness bring tears of very bitterness. [9]
But the feeling of shame at his helplessness was strong. [9]
He invented details of his experience among them, and March could not always help joining in the laugh at Conrad's humorless helplessness under Fulkerson's burlesque denunciation of a summer outing spent in such dissipation. [8]
Simply (if for nothing else) for the variety they would have made in a rather monotonous history of Federal servility and helplessness, it is a pity they were not fated to hold office together in Utah. [5]
Long before that I realized my helplessness, I knew that whatever I might have done was past doing. [9]
Inside the vehicle, hunched up in the corner of the seat, was a man who presented an appearance of helplessness which struck them both with a sobering effect. [9]
He could shrug his shoulders and play with his beads, and urbanely explain his own helplessness and ineligibility when his influence was summoned, or it was sought to entangle him in warring interests. [11]
At such moments his sense of helplessness was overpowering. [9]
But her inborn, her cultivated, her almost invincible egoism, had not even then been scattered by the bitter helplessness of her life. [11]
A feeling of helplessness, of utter desolation crept over Janet; powerless to comfort herself, how could she comfort her sister? [9]
He felt his helplessness in the matter, but determined to try to be back in Noumea on that date. [11]
Deep and bitter grief overwhelmed her completely, with the sense of abandoned loneliness, the humiliating feeling of helplessness against a brutal power that marches on, scorning humanity, as a warrior treads down the grass and flowers in his path. [10]
He could not forget the oppressive sense of helplessness which had seized him when he had felt himself at the mercy of the unrestrained horses, like a leaf driven by the wind, and then suddenly saved by a miracle. [10]
Her heart beat faster, for there was a look in his eyes she had never seen before--a look of human helplessness, of deep anxiety. [11]
Sinister they became, but with the helplessness of those in whom the under-spirit of life has been working, estranging them, even against their will, from the rest of the world. [11]
She might yet beg that, if her weakening courage permitted her to dare absolute loneliness and helplessness, but she realized now that if she were left alone her life would become one long, hideous nightmare. [13]
Often and anxiously at this silent hour, her thoughts reverted to her grandfather, and she would wonder how much he remembered of their former life, and whether he was ever really mindful of the change in their condition and of their late helplessness and destitution. [12]
The dog was as wretched and suffering as herself, and besides it was the only being that, in spite of her helplessness, she could cherish and be dear to. [10]
He turned round again, and shrugged his shoulders with an expression of helplessness. [11]
Mrs. Falchion made a gesture of helplessness. [11]
There was, too, a certain air of helplessness about him, a primitive intensity almost painful. [11]

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