A person, a society and a country which is weak and helpless has no choice but to resort to violence. |
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He feels helpless and powerless to do anything to change things for the better. |
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And all she could do was sit and feel quite helpless, wishing she was at Anna's side to comfort her and hold her hand. |
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This time Hamilton ran through a statuesque Town defence to side-foot the ball past a helpless O'Hare. |
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Why do we decide it is none of our business or that we are helpless to do anything about it? |
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The genetic uniformity among Cavendish bananas has made them helpless to fight Black Sigatoka. |
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It would be easier to deal with Ms Rice as a helpless victim oppressed by a bunch of white bigots. |
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We want to be the capable authors of our work, not helpless victims of unplanned circumstance. |
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The ordeal of being mugged is scary enough without being left to feel as though you're on your own and helpless. |
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As Brant plodded behind his subjugator, he could hardly think of a time when he had felt this helpless. |
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Requesting the state to protect women appears to declare women helpless victims. |
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This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless. |
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Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own. |
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This new wave of bloodlust, it occurred to me, is more a result of feeling helpless, than of anything rational or reasonable. |
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Unable to remain helpless victims any longer, the residents have taken up the step. |
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I was sitting in bed, unarmed and helpless staring at a shadow that was going to kill me. |
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It's the stereotype of the helpless girl in the water who wakes up to find a lifeguard giving her mouth-to-mouth, like Prince Charming. |
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Avis reported seeing a local resident standing in waist-deep water, helpless as her furniture floated down the road. |
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It was desperate and helpless and came from somewhere deep inside her in huge loud sobs that racked her entire body and soul. |
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The helpless ship accelerated for a few moments and then began to slow down, eventually coming to a standstill. |
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Jaded synths and multi-tracked harmonies lurk above a razor-fine piano note until the vocals lift into a Franciscan chant of helpless beauty. |
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Khaled also displays a purposefulness that contradicts ideas of children as helpless munchkins or mental incompetents. |
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On the other hand, he is so unexposed to the complex social and emotional fabric of the real world, that he is completely helpless. |
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The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage. |
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There were rats and snakes crawling and slithering all over her helpless body. |
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When a mighty predator makes a meal of a slow-witted, defenseless, helpless creature, one can hardly help but cringe. |
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In 1984, when I was taking care of the riot victims, I saw the same nameless fear and helpless misery. |
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McBreen, a super find, rattled a fine cross into the unmarked Moutinho, who prodded the ball past helpless Colin Scott. |
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To respond to all these borderless threats, stand-alone nations are helpless. |
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Was the world, with all its climates, made in vain for thy helpless, unoffending victim? |
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Your kind are the ones that tear people down and lure helpless girls into their snares! |
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She also said that her family's solicitousness in taking care of her is making her feel somewhat helpless. |
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My heart has ached for these helpless mothers and for the little unwelcome babes when I have taken them into my arms. |
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Of course, I had no power and I was very weak physically, so I felt very helpless and exposed. |
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Choking back both tears and nausea, a single helpless salty tear dribbles down your cheek as you curse your newfound lowliness. |
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He felt helpless as he watched her fight against the pain that was racking her body. |
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They were so helpless and vulnerable, yet didn't seem to care a jot, wanting only to play and charge around. |
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Within moments, we would be dissolved into hopeless, helpless, joyful laughter. |
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Essentially, you, the helpless victim, are in control of one or more castles. |
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The hideous scar on his back is a testimony to the violence that was inflicted upon him by the police when he was just a helpless baby. |
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Natalia looked about ready to kill Jake, but with her captor holding her down, she was helpless to do anything but glare icy daggers at him. |
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A long ball in from Ball was killed by the Dutchman, who turned and hit it beyond the helpless Arthur. |
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Breaking down into helpless giggles at his dramatization of a country hick's accent, it took me a while before I was capable of answering him. |
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The audience of parents, grandparents, Godparents and families were reduced to helpless fits of giggles. |
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The trouble with tennis these days is that a helpless child could hit a serve at a 100 mph because of them strings! |
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We're like a big burlap sack full of kittens, all wriggly and cuddly and helpless. |
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When they were within range he leapt up, levelled a pistol at the helpless group and demanded cash. |
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The authorities have shown time and again that they are helpless in this regard. |
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The helpless laughter of audiences gives him the approval which he was denied as a child. |
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He was surrounded by his family and friends yet still felt alone and helpless. |
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I used to read it aloud to my little brother, and we'd collapse into helpless laughter. |
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That is frustrating for the police, who waste so much time chasing shadows, and distressing for residents left feeling helpless. |
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It would demonstrate American capabilities to the armed punks who rape, torture and murder the unarmed and helpless on a daily basis. |
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My colleague and I looked at each other and then dissolved into helpless laughter. |
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Tairo fought back the need to retort, feeling helpless and angry at the same time. |
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Friends and family quickly came to the helpless dog's aid, rescuing and reviving him from almost certain death. |
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Doran rifled the ball past a helpless Loney in the Armagh goal to open up a four-point lead. |
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Yet humanists should have the capability to defend the rights of the most helpless members of society. |
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Luck has very little to do with romance, other than to maintain the illusion that we are helpless pawns in the game of love. |
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She roared out in agony, helpless to do anything except violently curse the executor of her friend. |
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She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically. |
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I'm trying to say that I didn't mean anything by saying girls are helpless romantics but it is true, mind you. |
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Two minutes later David Cooke scored the best goal of the game with a delightful lob from the edge of the area that left Danny Hurst helpless. |
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He was cynically lured into helpless addiction by the Perth scone barons in a lock-in at a local tea-room. |
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She longed to see a powerful revival among the neglected and helpless widows of India. |
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Marijuana smoking, experts point out, can make a helpless addict of its victim within weeks, causing physical and moral ruin, and death. |
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Then a bugle rang out and instantly guns and machine-guns opened fire on the helpless fishing-craft, and a hail of missiles fell. |
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They are on the receiving end, or on the sidelines, feeling helpless and vulnerable. |
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Cutting a helpless throat, even when it belonged to scum like this, went hard with him. |
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One feels so helpless, so small in the face of such awesome power being so recklessly cast about. |
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Clearly, capable confident, can-do people are what Kruglanski dislikes and babyish, helpless people are his ideal. |
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Clove Lloyd looked helpless, when despite having 7 fielders on the offside, Vishy was still able to play his royal square-cut. |
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Only at the end of the book does he admit that he feels at home among the most vulnerable and helpless people. |
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In the face of such irresistible destruction, we all feel weak and helpless. |
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I nodded and left the room, with a worried glance backwards at the woman who was still sitting on the couch, looking so miserable and helpless. |
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He squealed to no end while she cachinnated maniacally at the tribulation of the poor helpless doctor. |
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He was very old, but she could tell by watching him walk that he was in no way helpless or weak. |
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The young Spaniard swung at it and sent the ball screaming past the helpless Gianluigi Buffon and into the left-hand side of the Juve goal. |
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Script writers are chafing, television executives tell you privately that they are helpless. |
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Have a heart and spare a thought for the defenceless, helpless victims and their families. |
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It became clear to us that we were witnessing the aftermath of a massacre, the cold-blooded butchery of helpless and defenceless civilians. |
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He awoke terrified and helpless in a hospital bed, covered in bandages and unable to move his legs. |
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He pulled the sheets open for her and eased her in and tucked her inside like she was a helpless puppy. |
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His parents tolerate the sudden plunge into secularism with helpless concern. |
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No, they would not allow themselves to become the helpless thralls of that traitor. |
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The difference is that one injury is self-inflicted while the other is forced on helpless victims. |
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An American soldier had been murdered right in front of him, and he was helpless to do anything about it. |
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Being with Lydie when she was so weak and helpless caused Jamie to become distressed. |
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Hatchlings are almost naked, their eyes are closed, and they are helpless, but they develop rapidly. |
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I am a police captain and feel totally helpless as I am unable to help my city and my family. |
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I felt frustrated and helpless and just wanted to see if there was anything I could do. |
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It's always been a great shame for me to admit that I was as helpless and dependent on her as a child. |
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She and her brother received regular telephone calls in the dead of night from her father, helpless with pain. |
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I am left to watch and feel desperate if not helpless in this small world in which I am unable to do more than pray. |
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The little Orion whimpered and mewled quietly, helpless to everything around him. |
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Salty water cascaded in torrents down my face and my sobs were strangled and helpless. |
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She totally laughed at me when she heard that I was helpless in the middle of town. |
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His body shook with a memory he had tried to forget, but the woman lying helpless on his couch was bringing it all back to him. |
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Nonetheless, I wanted her to know that she is not at all helpless and vulnerable. |
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His track record, he says, is proven, but he is helpless if others choose to ignore it. |
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He beat one defender, shimmied left and right then placed the ball past the helpless keeper. |
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He felt helpless because he could not do anything to save innocent lives and bring succour to them. |
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The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas. |
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Is there anything worse than watching someone you love have to suffer while you're helpless to do anything to help? |
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Each quiz answer now sounded like part of a comedy sketch as we answered the previous question, by the end I was mopping my eyes, weeping with helpless laughter. |
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I hate being helpless when those rich powerful bastards beat mother. |
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This not only makes you look like a louse, it makes you look like a helpless, bed-wetting man-child. |
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Diane clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands. |
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The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes. |
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These things also happen to people who you know are helpless, like random people caught in the crossfire. |
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To me it sounds like we're all stupid, helpless idiots, no different from our kissing cousins, the chimpanzees, trying to learn the Pythagorean theorem. |
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After all, we get only occasional glimpses of helpless wretches living in slums, or in places far removed from our wonderful clean, green environment. |
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Many patients buried their emotions, utterly helpless and dependent as they were, for the sake of peace, maintaining an outer stoicism they did not feel. |
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These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless. |
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As the victim, who is partially-sighted, sat helpless in her wheelchair, the men rifled through all the rooms in the house before stealing money from her handbag. |
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He saves the helpless from burning buildings and puppies from untimely deaths. |
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Like a homing device, it zipped over the net, into the corner of the court, and past the helpless Dabul to win the point. |
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Inside the bank building, five robbers dressed in black cloaks and Halloween masks upheld a reign of terror over the helpless customers and bank tellers trapped inside. |
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I called to her, but she slipped away with a tormenting smile at my helpless hands, and I followed her with some impatience. |
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For every Record Collector, LP paranoia eventually sets in and the beloved becomes a monster, desperate to scratch and scuff the poor helpless vinyl. |
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She is not going to the mat for some helpless whistleblower. |
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Katherine saw another soldier bearing down on a helpless woman. |
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Imagine yourself helpless and completely dependent on other people. |
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This makes me feel helpless and is making me dependent on Jazlyn's help. |
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What most people fear, after all, is a death that comes after repeated aggressive interventions have left them helpless and dependent on technology. |
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The exercise is very popular with most students, and some once infected with the publication bug metamorphose into helpless, chronic letter writers. |
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He remembered the way Buck had worn his first sweater, standing up tall and looking down at his chest, helpless to the giggling and the shame of wearing such an ugly outfit. |
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The troupe stages the critically acclaimed Being Harold Pinter, a play about helpless characters with a KGB-esque twist. |
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This distressing subject aside, the book is shot through with Connolly's inimitable humour and even in print he has the ability to render you helpless with laughter. |
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He gazed into the man's compassionate eyes in helpless, naked trustingness, and then he wriggled closer to rest his head in the man's lap, and with that, he fell asleep. |
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The deafening klaxons can leave one feeling helpless, but there are still steps you can take to mitigate the damage. |
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While society turns a deaf ear to such helpless women, it gives full credence to unmarried females who are at liberty to decide the fates of innocent males. |
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She is silly, helpless, Irish, very poor, and 28 years of age. |
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In many of the tales the fairies are tiny, silly, helpless creatures. |
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Like helpless bods clinging to a leaky wreck somewhere between Indonesia and Australia, we were willing to grasp any straw floating past, as drowning people are wont to do. |
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If you were a nut so primitive as to think that decapitating a helpless man would strengthen you, what might you think if that bodiless head were to start speaking? |
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I was wrenched back into the frigid brine, unconscious, and helpless. |
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But she was again buffeted away, as helpless as a dandelion seed. |
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I was grabbing books and trying to hide them, the dog was running off with them, my dad was standing helpless in his pyjamas. |
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But to watch her suffer for three years, she was a quadriplegic, it was a very helpless feeling for me. |
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He stuck up for those that were helpless to defend themselves. |
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I was helpless to do anything but pray to God for her salvation. |
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It is common to think of preborn human life as weak, dependent and helpless. |
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The men were separated from the women, and the captors regularly raped the helpless women. |
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In the 9th century, however, the Tang government was nearly helpless in dealing with any calamity. |
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If the characters are lost and helpless in what seems like a rondure of Sisyphus, the writer is in total empathy. |
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The young are born hairless and helpless, and their eyes do not open until about 18 days after birth. |
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They swim well and fly adequately but are almost helpless on land, because their legs are placed towards the rear of the body. |
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The framers of the Constitution were being outframed by the president, and the Democrats in Congress felt helpless to stop it. |
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This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner. |
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As for me, I felt wretched and helpless, in the darkness, surrounded with angry waves, whose noise deafened me. |
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A fire is the only thing that unstrings me entirely, I feel so helpless to combat it. I'm afraid of snakes, but I can kill them. |
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The most significant modification in humans compared to other extant primates is altricial birth, which is the birth of helpless newborns. |
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The most dangerous moment was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes gunned down. |
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According to his first vision quest, his role is to be the protector of his people, one who looks out for the helpless. |
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The Filipino expats living in Oman responded to the recent calamities that ravaged the Visayan Islands leaving thousands homeless and helpless. |
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When events in the Middle East refuse to fit into this Procrustean bed, the West is often left helpless in its cluelessness. |
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And this was the smooth-faced, frightened, helpless boy, whom those two thickwitted, bullying officers were carrying to Waco! |
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They were frightened, demoralized, and economically helpless. |
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After misremembering the story of rash Virginius, who killed his daughter, Titus slays the helpless Lavinia. |
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The most dangerous moment for POW's was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes mistakenly shot down. |
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Victor is helpless to stop her from being hanged, as he knows no one would believe his story. |
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At the stage when you are a helpless baby, Mom is, literally, everything. |
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The Hawaiians, most helpful to those who were most helpless, received them kindly. |
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Whether it is better on the original arpeggione, I am helpless to say. |
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However, Tyson recovered and eventually beat Bruno when the referee stopped the contest in round five with Bruno taking heavy punishment, lying helpless on the ropes. |
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Hrothgar and his people, helpless against Grendel, abandon Heorot. |
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At Craven Cottage, Bullard was notorious for creeping up on naked team-mates as they lay helpless on the massage table and giving them a closeup of his, er, tackle. |
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This concentrated, soapless, multi-purpose cleaner attacks the molecular structure of dirt, grease, and oils, rendering them helpless as they are rinsed or wiped off quickly. |
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Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety. |
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Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? |
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These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. |
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During April and May, the Arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless. |
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The young are born helpless, and require care for long periods of time. |
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Killer whales can induce tonic immobility in sharks and rays by holding them upside down, rendering them helpless and incapable of injuring the whale. |
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Kittens are born blind and helpless, and are covered in a fuzzy coat. |
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He even feared that he might again become a helpless invalid. |
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Alien's crude pass at a helpless Gomez is quite terrifying and the movie's second half, delving into Florida's gangbanger underbelly, both enthrals and appals. |
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Then on 39 minutes Dagnall slid a free-kick to Davies, whose leftfoot daisy cutter through the defensive wall from just outside the box again left Jones helpless. |
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