This answer showed the Roman commissioners the utter helplessness of their position.

Thou knowest the reason of this desolation and of our utter helplessness.

But more than all else is the consciousness of his utter helplessness.

She realized her utter helplessness, and the realization left her without words.

She dragged him to her castle and laughed at his utter helplessness.

Alice saw his evident sympathy, and felt pleased despite her utter helplessness.

Though she sought to strike at him he held her in utter helplessness.

Further, we have here the other element of a sense of utter helplessness.

God made me feel my utter helplessness, and then he did the work.

Presently, this died away, and I fell back in utter helplessness, wholly benumbed.

Yet, how calm, how wonderful they were in their utter helplessness.

She looked up at him with a feeling of utter helplessness.

I marveled at his audacity, and burned with rage at my utter helplessness.

As he stood there listening, a sense of utter helplessness wrenched at him.

A wretched sense of utter helplessness stole over her,-ofincapacity, weakness and loneliness.

She did not so much as seek to escape, knowing her utter helplessness.