It's just their defenselessness that tempts the tormentor, just the angelic confidence of the child who has no refuge and no appeal, that sets his vile blood on fire.
Other failures had left her with a sense of defenselessness in a world so largely populated by men who glanced up from their desks to refuse her plea for work.
He felt a sudden shame, as though she had accused him of taking advantage of her defenselessness.
His defenselessness proceeded from relations of comparative intimacy with the actress, and his priestly knowledge of the guilty person.
Its exposed situation, under our present conditions of defenselessness, has long been a cause for anxiety.
It was a feeling of defenselessness against some unrecognized but malicious influence.
Only the women and children ran the risk of remaining in the houses, in their defenselessness trusting to the mercy of the enemy.
He slept as peacefully, as devotedly, as a baby, confiding his defenselessness to the night with no tremors or uncertainty.
