These faces tell a story of loss, of despair, and of complete helplessness. |
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Many people have given way to despondency and helplessness, having lost faith in leaders and politicians. |
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He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns. |
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Traumatic events have in common the ability to elicit intense and immediate fear, helplessness, horror and distress. |
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The next stage, she says, is an attitude of helplessness about work, the full-blown Sisyphus complex. |
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To Pamela's astonishment, there was helplessness in those eyes she had come to think of as dauntless. |
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Amid the laughter, the melodrama and hysteria, this is a play with a terrible, almost frightening undertow of sadness and helplessness. |
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This conversation was pointless and only awakened the hollow feeling in the pit of his gut and the sensation of helplessness. |
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Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness are the essence of depression. |
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Her sense of helplessness contributed to her desire to solicit help in dealing with her suicidality. |
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Optimism turns to pessimism and a growing sense of helplessness, however, as funds are depleted and rejection letters arrive. |
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He watched her with a mingled feeling of helplessness, admiration, and hate. |
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The images in the nightmare had been vivid, but what had been more vivid had been the sensation of suffocation and sheer helplessness. |
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To teach them to embrace dependency on the government is to embrace learned helplessness. |
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The mother's profile suggested cognitive and behavioral disorganization and attitudes of helplessness and hopelessness. |
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The result has been ideological confusion, civilian helplessness, and an environment eminently hospitable to putsches. |
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But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure. |
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She plays him for a fool, often feigning helplessness just to see what lengths he will go to in order to prove his love for her. |
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Their discouragement produced symptoms of the psychological harm called learned helplessness. |
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In those cruel, almost harrowing, final few moments, the Celtic manager was a picture of helplessness. |
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His words clearly expressed the helplessness of some local businesses investing abroad. |
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Some of our favorite pieces help us remember that peril and despair breed hope, not helplessness. |
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Individuals can respond to these experiences with intense fear, horror or a sense of helplessness. |
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His face expresses bewildered helplessness, reminding us that the photographer must either choose to lend a helpful hand or snap the photo. |
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Optimism turns to pessimism and a growing sense of helplessness as funds are depleted and rejection letters arrive. |
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The captain told of the anguish and helplessness experienced when injured crew are taken into the care of people outside of the navy's control. |
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The experience of many refugees is of helplessness, of being ferried around by people whose intentions are concealed by the language barrier. |
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Many last-borns capitalize on their position as smallest and weakest by elevating helplessness to a high art. |
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These theaters of anxiety illustrate collective helplessness in the face of unmanageable man-made, natural or supernatural forces. |
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Now he is missing and his relatives back home are frantic with worry and helplessness. |
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Work devoid of opportunities for participation can lead to strain and escapist behaviour as compensation for the sense of helplessness. |
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What this film does get right is the utter helplessness of man when pitted against a shark in a battle of life or death. |
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The themes of separation and helplessness are probably objectifications of his own grief over the loss of his wife. |
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And they're better than real children, who soon outgrow their adorable helplessness. |
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It made uncertainty a principle of government and reduced the regime's victims to helplessness. |
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She has a certain fondness for Xavier, born of his apparent helplessness in the face of getting by. |
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They forge a relationship based on their common sense of helplessness in the face of the overwhelming power of fate. |
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Lusty young rock bands and just about everyone else shuddered at the prospect of bedridden helplessness and a general loss of independence. |
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Jim shook his head again, gesturing his helplessness with both hands. |
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Madeline is devastated by guilt and anguished over her helplessness. |
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It is so illogical, ugly and foul-mouthed that it almost suggests a deliberate subversive subtext aimed at exposing the nurtured helplessness of today's cinema-going public. |
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It hurt, this feeling of helplessness that gnawed at his insides. |
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The worst responses to an unpleasant situation are helplessness and intolerance. |
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The brokenness of the political system drives the former, and helplessness drives the latter. |
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On 15Â September, I condemned the risky situation and the helplessness and defencelessness of these workers. |
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Beatings and arrests at Warsaw University broke the barrier of submissiveness and helplessness. |
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Drawing back into self-defense and self-interest need not mean a regression to helplessness. |
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It is always through you lowliness and your helplessness that He acts with power and force. |
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All of them plead helplessness due to lack of funds and lack of manpower. |
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Feelings of sadness, hopelessness, helplessness, guilt and worthlessness may be present. |
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The health care team will likely ask about feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, helplessness, and thoughts about, or wishes for, death. |
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They calm the feelings of helplessness and uselessness that arise as the person grows weaker and perhaps less alert. |
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This may have created deep-rooted feelings of helplessness and undermined a child's trust in others. |
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Also, may cause: anxiety, distraction, depression, sense of helplessness, drowsiness and outrage. |
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Not only can this create a feeling of helplessness, it also lends drones an inscrutability that can feel threatening. |
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It would be easy to make a list of the world's discontents and write an essay about the helplessness we feel as we face them. |
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They have also been witness to their mother's helplessness, fear and dejection. |
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The Inspectors believe that the Secretariat should not imply or assert its helplessness to protect staff from vengeful managers. |
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To be helpless in the face of lies conveys something important about the helplessness of the audience. |
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Pregnancy had been an exercise in helplessness, but this was so much worse. |
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She confessed to the feelings of rage and helplessness that overwhelmed her as she gazed down up on the blood-soaked body of Angela. |
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Branden Kramer, Ratter's director, attributes this new slew of movies to a creeping sense of helplessness. |
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Atraumatic event is a life-threatening event or one that causes feelings of fear, helplessness or horror. |
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Generally speaking, women did not complain about these demands, but spoke about their sense of helplessness and guilt. |
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It may even mitigate the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that often accompanies the disease. |
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There are sentiments common to all such as the feeling of vulnerability and helplessness. |
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The response to the HIV epidemic is more likely to be one of helplessness rather than a resolve to take steps to avoid HIV infection. |
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It is common knowledge that corruption breeds on need, greed, low morality, abusive nature and at times helplessness of the people in a society. |
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All of these effects combine to increase the accused's sense of helplessness in the face of the legal system. |
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Diplomatic action to date has failed to protect fish stocks, as people and communities watch with despair and helplessness. |
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And in her agony, in her utter helplessness, mentioned the unmentionable. |
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Trapped in a car, I watched in absolute helplessness, as this beast of the netherworld repeatedly launched itself at the windshield with great force. |
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This ubiquity of unavoidable helplessness points to the possibility that dependency is not peripheral to the social order, but is somehow central to it. |
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Losing oneself in the movie is not figured as pleasurable, but sets up, rather, a mode of helplessness in the face of an opaque and fragmented story line. |
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What worries me is that there will be enfeeblement, helplessness, that I will go on for years unable to sense my decline, my lunacy, and oblivious to all my indignities. |
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The child's detachment exacerbates the parents' feeling of helplessness. |
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But as an additional twist, he picks up waifish Russian prostitute Anne, whose seeming helplessness belies a shrewd sense of self-preservation at any cost. |
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Bewilderment and helplessness and dismay mingled strangely, played out in a clashing kaleidoscope, vivid against the colourlessness of everything else. |
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Amotivation represents the lowest possible level of self-determination, as it implies a loss of personal control and alienation akin to learned helplessness. |
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Over the years, with every attack, the public mood has ebbed from outrage to a feeling of resignation and helplessness. |
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A feeling of helplessness and its resulting paralysis are the enemy of the Good. |
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The civic authorities plead helplessness in feeding the vagrant population and point out that a proposal to rehabilitate them in the suburbs is hanging fire. |
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Rather like Miss Pittypat Hamilton in Gone with the Wind, their unmarried status conveyed upon them a kind of perpetual hall pass to helplessness. |
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You gave me your will, you have admitted your helplessness and lowliness, but you would like Me to act according to your will and inspire you with power and strength. |
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Institutionalism is brought about, in part, by a sense of learned helplessness, a belief that one has no control over one's environment. |
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This vicious circle of helplessness must be broken, and aid must be given to poor countries and regions in the form of large-scale investment in education. |
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As well, demoralization and a sense of helplessness may have reached the point where voluntary action-the creation, joining, and support of local groups established for social and philanthropic purposes-all but ceases. |
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The feeling of panic, the feeling of helplessness. |
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Where every day is devoted to minimize the mental and emotional paper cuts of fear and helplessness. |
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Barry sounded lighter, his spirits lifting slightly from the shell shocking humiliation and helplessness he'd been feeling. |
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The exposé of a speaker is there to urge the individual to give his 'yes' and to accept the Love I desire to pour into his heart after he has acknowledged his lowliness and helplessness. |
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This dehumanized bureaucratic logic increases the frustration and helplessness felt by mothers whose separation from some or all of their children is being experienced in terms of emotions and feelings. |
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To sum up, we can say that head counts don't solve a single problem but they nurture a feeling of blissful helplessness in which we can all bask contentedly. |
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A risk is that they will remain stuck in their less than optimal health state, or worse, slip into feelings of helplessness and despair, which could lead to significantly more negative health outcomes. |
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By the time people with disabilities reach the Appeal Tribunals, they are often dispirited, lacking in self-esteem and harboring feelings of both helplessness and uselessness. |
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Beset, like many New Yorkers, with feelings of helplessness and superfluousness, Mr. Zwirner decided to postpone the next exhibition at his gallery and instead organize a show to benefit the victims. |
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We entangle them in a web of fear, of helplessness and anguish. |
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With very little chance of improving my job prospects while in prison, the feeling of hopelessness and helplessness affected my everyday thinking. |
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What I mean by this is that the media and advertisers present a picture of overwhelming affluence, and people who do not achieve this suffer from feelings of helplessness. |
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After the initial emotional reaction caused by an overwhelming media sensationalism, social conscience tends to shut down because of feelings of helplessness, fatalism, or neglect. |
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The political and psychological reaction to missiles can be out of proportion to their actual effects-largely because of the feeling of helplessness that missiles can inspire. |
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If we await a destiny brought on through apathy and complacency, lulled into a false security by our current good care, when the time for action comes, our strength will have atrophied into helplessness. |
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September 11 was a turning point in all our lives, an event marked by cruel losses, grotesque images, fear, anger, sleeplessness and helplessness. |
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Their emotions pass disorderedly through horror, despair, helplessness, denial, and determination. |
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By forcing the singers to enact both the arrogance of the tormentors and the helplessness of the victims, Bach underlines Luther's point about the inescapability of guilt. |
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While the purpose of the journey may have initially been to benefit both themselves and their children, feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear may cause them to act irrationally. |
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The book's unhappy narrator fantasizes about living as another person but always encounters the same emptiness and helplessness that drove him to escape into fantasy in the first place. |
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A mentality of fatefulness verging on helplessness seems to set in, which only results in an ever-greater commitment of American resources. |
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Through prayer they can break down the walls of isolation, emerge from their condition of helplessness, and share in the joys and sorrows of others. |
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I still firmly believe that it is a profession that must fight an ongoing battle in every community, against indifference, against feelings of helplessness, against ignorance. |
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However, in all cases the individual has experienced a threatening event that has caused him or her to respond with intense fear, helplessness, or horror. |
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The pervasive violence and stress of a country afflicted by war may create deep-rooted feelings of helplessness and undermine a child's trust in others. |
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The war, marked by NATO bombings and ethnic purification, grabbed attention and demonstrated the helplessness of the bodies assumed to be responsible for peace keeping, starting with the United Nations. |
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I remember at my first session feeling amazed by the helplessness of others in the group-they were in a terrible condition, wasting away, skinny, eyes wide with fear, waiting to die. |
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So, our soldiers often experience feelings of helplessness or horror. |
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In this way, he believed, would mankind be raised above conditions of helplessness, poverty and misery, while coming into a condition of peace, prosperity and security. |
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When introjects are weak, an anaclitic personality configuration results, characterized by dependency, insecurity, and feelings of helplessness and emptiness. |
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Such perceived helplessness on the part of the therapist reinvokes the image of the ineffectual parent who could do nothing to protect her child from extreme forms of abuse. |
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