Word: helplessly
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...same patterns in core sections butsay that with the large size, they are helpless tosolve them...
Anyone who has raised a child from birth knows firsthand how defenseless a newborn baby can be. No other animal is so helpless for so long -- so dependent on adults for food, shelter, attention, instruction and a nurturing environment in which to develop and grow. Scientists have learned that babies subjected to repeated trauma or stress or left unattended for too long may suffer neurological effects that can, in extreme cases, be irreversible. But as a society, the U.S. seems to have forgotten the needs of its youngest children. Of the 12 million American babies and toddlers under age three...
...cried for a week," Kladakis says. "I was completely helpless, there was nothing I could do about it for a year...
Imagine: (it should not be hard because we have all seen it before), Roemello, whose conscience has gotten the best to him, wants to get out of the racket. His older, helpless brother, Raynathan, desperately wants him to stay because he needs his guidance. Roemello wants to leave the neighborhood where the nightmares that plague him occurred; he witnessed his father's beating by the cops, his mother's heroin overdose, his father's further demise through addiction. Yet all of these scenes enter the film at seemingly random times. They give background to the plot but seem only...
Piercy attempts to show the vulnerability of modern women, but instead depicts her female characters as essentially helpless, clinging to their husbands with whatever skills they can for fear of being left with nothing. Even Leila, supposedly the independent-minded professional, spent decades making excuses for her husband's frequent affairs with younger women. She only divorces him when he goes as far as moving in with his pregnant girlfriend...