Significados de complete powerlessness en inglés

Everything was wrong, and she had no way of putting things right -that gave her a sense of complete powerlessness.

Félicité raised her head, feigning surprise; and with a gesture of complete powerlessness she said: I am a fool in these matters.

She could still so easily picture the horrible scene that had taken place there, the sense of complete powerlessness, of being under DuPris's control.