Word: helplessly
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...Pelican.” He brings a certain befuddled ingenuousness to the “Isle of the Dead” sequence, and when sent to the audience to watch “Pelican” as a kind of final reckoning, Leaf successfully presents the anguish of a helpless onlooker.Faced with the difficult task of portraying a character both pathetic and despicable, Malin succeeds at making the audience empathize with a monster. Her performance at times appears to lack focus in its histrionics, but Malin demonstrates her substantial talent through her ability to show the mother?...
What a bunch ofbrave hunters was at Armstrong Ranch! They rode around in old jeeps and got out to shoot helpless birds. Real sports, aren't they...
...consequences of his policies were all too visible, in Sarajevo, in Srebrenica and in Vukovar. Almost 11 years ago, I walked the town's muddy streets, stepping over corpses, as Serb militia members led away helpless civilians to what would be their mass grave. A year later, as part of a similar land grab in eastern Bosnia, the same men were happily torching Muslim homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them...
...lives he destroys, he always believes himself more sinned against than sinning. He has toddled through the series like an overindulged two-year-old, protected from the consequences of his actions by perverse fate, and protected from their moral consequences by his power of rationalization. After he shafts a helpless civilian in a business deal by making a greedy and unnecessary demand, he gets righteously angry when the man squeaks that he's being unfair. "Talk to the Katrina victims about fair!" he yells...
...Penn guard Ibrahim Jaaber, who finished the game with 23 points and six steals, put the Quakers up 15-5 with just under 11 minutes left until halftime. Penn would lead by double-digits the rest of the way.“It’s kind of a helpless feeling,” Harvard captain Matt Stehle said. “They’re an excellent defensive team, and we missed a lot of shots and rushed some shots.”Crimson junior guard Jim Goffredo nailed two three-pointers to bring Harvard back within 12 with...