Word: helplessly
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...start of the second half, we just lost all the momentum," Proudfit said. "They like to run, and they just ran a bunch of fast breaks. It felt like a helpless situation...
...result, he said, students tend to respond in a "helpless" way to academic difficulties and failure...
...Sometimes the caller may feel helpless and frustrated, when a person feels they cannot be helped," Langston says...
...ended; occupying foreigners, ruins, humiliations and guilt filled the Japanese landscape of his adolescence. His early fiction and essays were unusually intense by Japanese standards, tinged with pessimism and despair. After 1963, when his first son was born brain damaged, Oe's work became even more personal; a helpless or deformed child figure recurs, suggesting both implacable fate and the possibility of redemption. Compared with the four previous laureates -- Octavio Paz, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison -- Oe is little known but, thanks to the Swedish Academy, not for long...
...Secret Rapture" is plagued with excessively glaring dichotomies. Katherine's demeanor alternates between that of a helpless infant and an angry teen-ager, while step-daughter Isobel, who is in fact her elder, assumes the role of caretaker. Marion and Isobel are the Jekyll and Hyde of siblings; Marion values money, while Isobel cherishes relationships and peace of mind...