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Meanings of utter helplessness in English

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Usage of utter helplessness in English
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This answer showed the Roman commissioners the utter helplessness of their position.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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Thou knowest the reason of this desolation and of our utter helplessness.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
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But more than all else is the consciousness of his utter helplessness.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
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She realized her utter helplessness, and the realization left her without words.
North of Fifty-Three
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She dragged him to her castle and laughed at his utter helplessness.
Abducted to Oz
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Alice saw his evident sympathy, and felt pleased despite her utter helplessness.
Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
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Though she sought to strike at him he held her in utter helplessness.
Six Feet Four
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Further, we have here the other element of a sense of utter helplessness.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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God made me feel my utter helplessness, and then he did the work.
Woman and Her Saviour in Persia / By a Returned Missionary
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Presently, this died away, and I fell back in utter helplessness, wholly benumbed.
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Yet, how calm, how wonderful they were in their utter helplessness.
See America First
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She looked up at him with a feeling of utter helplessness.
The Obstacle Race
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I marveled at his audacity, and burned with rage at my utter helplessness.
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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As he stood there listening, a sense of utter helplessness wrenched at him.
Tom of the Raiders
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A wretched sense of utter helplessness stole over her,-ofincapacity, weakness and loneliness.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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She did not so much as seek to escape, knowing her utter helplessness.
The Keeper of the Door
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Utter helplessness through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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