Meanings of sheer helplessness in English

My sheer helplessness in the face of this whole stupid mess was infuriating.

I said this not in scorn, but in sheer helplessness.

Mrs. Dale sank into the nearest chair from sheer helplessness.

As a study of angst, inner turmoil and sheer helplessness, it's hard to beat.

Of the sheer helplessness I'd felt as he drew my head back, baring my throat.

Ketch, in sheer helplessness, was fain to comply.

For a moment Elliott would have laid hands on him, then he laughed from sheer helplessness.

She had ceased to attempt to read the riddle, half in dread and half in sheer helplessness.

I clenched my hands in frenzy, burst into tears from sheer helplessness, and gnawed away as one possessed.

She sat down at the table, not with the idea of eating anything, but from a sense of sheer helplessness.

By turns I saw them determined, desperate, despairing, half rebellious, half subdued; resigned with the resignation of sheer helplessness, which hopelessness.

"I mean a monf," said Carry, now utterly adrift in sheer helplessness and confusion.