Word: helplessly
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...repulsive both in action and thought. That natural repulsion is, I'm afraid, exploited to an unpleasant degree. A character without memory is just too easy to put in danger. This is the literary equivalent of going after the family pet in a horror flick: the victim is a helpless pawn whom we have little chance to meet properly, and thus have little incentive to care about in any specific sense. Put simply, it's a cheap way to build drama...
Though Harvard's problems with advising--high student-to-adviser ratios, little contact between students and Faculty, confusing routes to seek help--have been long acknowledged by College officials, students in several departments still say they feel helpless...
Fighting for the puck behind the Crimson net, Witt unleashed a quick pass out in front to a waiting Giovanelli, who one-timed a wrist shot into the top left corner past a helpless and surprised Springer...
...since 1978, and shows charming touches of her mother Ida when hectoring her own daughter--but they're burdened with sentimentality and limp one-liners. The Mary we see here shows glimpses of her self-effacing but strong self, yet at other times, incongruously, seems to have become a helpless uptown lady-who-lunches and slips into self-help-speak like "I'd had it with having it all." And the career subplot turns into a journalism lesson that makes Lou Grant look subtle...
...where does this cosmic perspective leave us? Inspired? Depressed? As helpless in the face of technology's onslaught as ever...