Voorbeelden van helpless

• The fewer forms of expressing grief a community has, the freer but also the more helpless the grieving person is in dealing with loss.

• By making many of the hungry characters children, authors project adult fears on the more pitiable frame of the helpless orphan.

• The court cannot ignore the pitiable and helpless condition of the poor residing in villages.

• These neo-utilitarians1 treated agents as nearly helpless bystanders in a world they construed as described adequately by reference only to its structural forces.

• The heroine has an accident that renders her helpless and transforms her status on the instant from mistress to victim.

• There is no script, the garden flows constantly according to the natural law which audiences are also helpless to obey.

• As such, discourses of ' helpless victims ' could enable women quietly but persistently to undermine traditional expectations and make political gains.

• She describes the overly entrenched characterizations of sopranos as helpless and tenors as vulnerable and romantic.