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"helplessly" Definitions
  1. in a way that shows that you are unable to do anything in a particular situation
  2. in a way that shows that you are unable to control a strong feeling
"helplessly" Synonyms
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So he was just stuck in space, watching people helplessly.
Helplessly, I watched her die violently that evening, vomiting blood.
This man is either a brilliant troll or helplessly hilarious.
"I don't know what to tell you," she said helplessly.
"Without a hearing, without giving any chance," he said helplessly.
They plumb icy rivers and are helplessly drawn to fire.
We are exhausted from helplessly witnessing the crumbling of civility.
His arms are about to wheel helplessly in the air.
It powers itself right on up, then is helplessly stranded.
Ron watched helplessly — as usual — as his family was consumed.
People delivered themselves, helplessly, if you gave them the chance.
And sometimes they just watched helplessly as everything fell apart.
The man's widow said she watched helplessly as the pair drowned.
It exists blindly and helplessly on the brink of further darkness.
I watched helplessly as the drone hovered in place, battery dwindling.
But in each of these cases, local officials stood by helplessly.
Helplessly repeating phrases in public places ("The way of the future").
Then, he shoots Martha, and teen Jonas helplessly watches her bleed out.
Now, it stands helplessly in the way of a potentially stronger storm.
The suspects then drove off and the two dogs watched on helplessly.
I fired back helplessly, but with dedication, and Krispis sped us away.
It exists blindly and helplessly on the brink of further darkness. 18.
Those who don't most likely flail in the water helplessly and drown.
And many relatives and friends watched helplessly as their loved ones perished.
Every four years I watch helplessly like a glutton at the buffet:
Sutrallah begins to laugh helplessly, cupping small fingers over her mouth and
We sat helplessly glued to the Emergency+ app, watching the fire's progress.
Instead of feeling helplessly bombarded by calls, you can finally fight back.
"Everybody has been watching helplessly as this conflict unfolds," an analyst said.
"Everybody has been watching helplessly as this conflict unfolds," Ms. Yahya said.
But Blair Witch also emphasizes that you're helplessly lost in this forest.
We watched helplessly as our gleeful father flaunted his escape from justice.
In the next scene, those same bodies helplessly float downward into seeming nothingness.
No longer must parents helplessly watch their children's limbs shrivel and become useless.
The woman who'd asked for directions was smiling rather helplessly now, Etheridge thought.
I watched helplessly as he, heartbroken and disbelieving, tried to hold things together.
Mr. Sanguibe watched helplessly as soldiers whipped and stabbed his father with bayonets.
Gurriel watched helplessly from third as Carlos Beltran and Marwin Gonzalez grounded out.
It is a threat that Betts and his sons helplessly and literally embody.
"Got to Go" feels like the family album of a helplessly eccentric clan.
John broke down as he remembered watching helplessly as his wife's body began convulsing.
The series is helplessly English, as several Russian and British critics have pointed out.
They pointed without hesitation in two different directions, then stared helplessly at each other.
Am I sitting helplessly in this room, breathing in a bunch of floating viruses?
He said he watched helplessly as soldiers beat an old man in the street.
" She is worldly and smart and spectacularly connected while nevertheless "vulnerable" and helplessly "naïve.
Helplessly repeating phrases in public places ("I'll leave this country and never come back").
"The rouble is falling helplessly, shrugging off all positive (developments)," BCS brokerage analysts said.
His purgatory is to watch helplessly as Iris slowly succumbs to her illness without him.
Deanna watched helplessly as her husband took his cues from the rock-star stereotype playbook.
Captain America watches helplessly as his best bud Bucky dissolves into a pile of dust.
When Fiorini regained consciousness outside, she helplessly watched her home and belongings turn to ash.
It felt somehow wrong to watch helplessly, but I couldn't bring myself to look away.
Mark shrugged helplessly — he knew the former president wasn't going to listen to him either.
She's pointing at you vaguely with one hand now and gesticulating helplessly at your mom.
They watched helplessly as he drifted away and was swallowed by darkness and the sea.
But it's even more frightening that your mother-in-law is wandering the streets helplessly.
The destructive and evil forces within him collapsed helplessly before this remarkable display of humaneness.
Republicans may cringe at first, but they'll get used to it, and fall helplessly silent.
While most Americans watch helplessly, our stateside Taliban vandalizes and removes long-standing public monuments.
A rush of terror and fear overcame me as I helplessly slid across the road.
The refund offer did nothing for Berg, who was helplessly seeking a solution with company representatives.
"She was shaking in the center lobby as everyone watched helplessly," Dreem wrote in her post.
I have to watch helplessly as they solve the last puzzle on the computer behind me.
"I don't know how to follow that," he finally said, helplessly looking over at Mr. McCaslin.
And so to watch the cathedral burn today — helplessly, on a Periscope stream — was a tragedy.
Sure, you could sit at the computer and helplessly click around to teach yourself the software.
In my playthrough, Alexios was helplessly drawn to Thaletas and guiltily lured him away from Kyra.
Like so many, we watched helplessly as terrifying messages of SOS appeared on social media boards.
"Neither France nor Europe ... can watch helplessly as our economic institutions risk being dislocated," he added.
It's a melancholy tune about a man so helplessly in love that he can't even speak.
All of the people of the world, past and future, are falling helplessly into Krishna's mouth.
They scoffed at his admission that he'd stood by helplessly while Ellard dragged and drowned Virk.
Pushed off the edge, it helplessly tumbled and bounced in midair as the cord sprang back.
"Before long, the U.S. forces were helplessly wrapped inside the [Sherzais'] friendly bear hug," Chayes continues.
A nameless protagonist, played by Fairchild, emerged from the crowd and buckled helplessly to his knees.
Today, I would probably say that she disliked it but was powerfully, helplessly drawn to it.
It was devastating to watch helplessly as this virus swiftly and mercilessly ravaged his little body.
But as the actors sang, again, the crew would begin to wiggle, almost helplessly, in time.
Battles have been flaring inside the prison since then as officers in guard towers watched helplessly.
Seconds later I was watching helplessly as the contents of the glass seeped into my MacBook Air.
Soon after the babies were born, she watched helplessly as nurses whisked the infants away from her.
And once relief settles in, it strikes out of nowhere, throwing you helplessly back into the maelstrom.
Saito recalls staring helplessly out of his hospital room window as waves inundated the town beneath him.
The player may be forced to kill Thaletas or helplessly watch as either of their lovers die.
The men were panting and sweating; the tiny girl stood helplessly by, saying, 'Oh, my God,' repeatedly.
He scratched at the stubbles helplessly as he picked at his scone, sipped at the cooling coffee.
When I called back, my father took in the news helplessly, as though he'd been expecting it.
Angelica, though grateful to Orlando for her life, is helplessly in love with Medoro, an African prince.
I often felt misunderstood, helplessly trying to explain that this state was just the way I was.
The short video depicts a nude, morbidly obese individual lying helplessly on top of a McDonald's table.
They buckled helplessly against the roaring sonic tempest coming from the room's speakers, before it abruptly ended.
This hesitancy can lead to medical mishaps, with pregnant women left helplessly awaiting the outcome of complications.
I heard the despair in their voices and watched helplessly as they became depressed, one after another.
After they escaped, Ms. Brito and the other survivors stood outside the building, helplessly watching it burn.
With Phil sedated by a vet, May watches helplessly as the hog nearly dies on the operating table.
CNN correspondent Hadas Gold said people crowded the banks of the Seine to gaze helplessly at the unthinkable.
And sitting there helplessly, as I watch chuckleheads bump into my brand-new Bimmer, would be quite irksome.
In one triage meeting, the team watched a video of a tester helplessly stuck behind a locked door.
I don't know what happened but I started crying helplessly and dropped to the floor in a ball.
He's holding onto both of his paws as he hangs helplessly over the edge of Pride Rock's cliff. 
Mothers will helplessly watch their children die because 50 percent of all malnutrition is caused by unsafe water.
If I fell, I would merely dangle helplessly while people below shot videos and posted them to YouTube.
With Towns watching helplessly from the bench, Utah had no trouble generating enough offensive momentum to surge ahead.
And the reader helplessly waits to see which of the endless terrible things that could happen actually will.
Hours later, he was dead on a gurney, which doctors rolled by his mother as she watched helplessly.
He hurled rocks but watched helplessly as the Red Ants ripped apart his zinc sheets and wooden frames.
Over recent years, demoralized and confused scientists have watched helplessly as bee populations around the world have fallen.
It's a set of requirements that might leave you standing helplessly in front of your closet, but worry not.
A dog owner watched helplessly as a swan attacked and killed his dog at a park in Dublin, Ireland.
Or, in other words (I'm not sure how reassuring this is): Pretty much everyone else feels helplessly screwed, too!
The family watched helplessly from the window of their home as plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky.
Last Friday, Serang's police swooped in and took away the food that she had prepared while she watched helplessly.
It's not at all the kind of world in which you want to find yourself stuck flailing around helplessly.
Authorities in smaller towns watch helplessly as their young people grow up, move away to study, and never return.
Other cities, like Nashville, Denver, and Minneapolis, stood by helplessly as hundreds of scooters were dropped onto their streets.
A studio sliding helplessly toward middle-age, benumbed by a torrent of Steam sales revenue and marketplace transaction fees.
Taxi owners argued that Uber flouts regulations, but have watched helplessly as riders, and drivers, flock to the platform.
It was a photo that upset many: two dogs peeking helplessly out of a boat surrounded by flood waters.
Stout sat helplessly on her bed, shot her four times in order to leave no witnesses to the crime.
They watch the newcomers helplessly, gossiping that perhaps these are "illegal Mexicans" or Army deserters or terrorists from Gitmo.
From there, he watched helplessly as Boko Haram drove those still waiting on the far bank into the water.
Is the joke on them or on us, who helplessly believe everything we see in spite of evident contradictions?
The tears I had tried to keep to myself have finally defeated me, and I find myself helplessly sobbing.
Lillard was simply off, or perhaps just helplessly swallowed up by Klay Thompson's elite length and ambient AXE-stank.
You might remember the little puffling who choked on a butterfish and died as thousands of viewers helplessly watched.
In April, Diane Geraghty lost her husband of 25 years, watching helplessly as he succumbed to a lung condition.
The alternative is standing by helplessly and watching someone die while you await the arrival of emergency medical personnel.
If it is, they might then be forced to stand by helplessly while that child deteriorates and ultimately dies.
He was the older sage that I have always intuited — helplessly, hopelessly — I am on my way to becoming.
If you miss the window, you'll be forced to watch helplessly, tapping in vain, as it unfolds without you.
Yulieski Gurriel swung helplessly at a slider to end the half-inning, and Kershaw is up to eight strikeouts.
In January 2015, armed men came to Mr. Sánchez's house and dragged him away as his family watched helplessly.
We get this great view over the treetops, with Ravagers being tossed helplessly up and down, over and over.
Ute, a yucca palm, leans helplessly on a window sill, for example, taking part of his pot with him.
He watched helplessly as his fellow Spanish-speaking teammate J.J. Barea suffered a season-ending Achilles' tear in January.
Two tents, bracketing a square of blankets used as a cooking and socializing space, flap helplessly in the wind.
What initially seems like a horror film about innocent people being helplessly slaughtered instead becomes a strident statement on resistance.
Cicilline, who runs the House Democrats' policy and communications committee, denied Democrats were simply "looking on helplessly" at the problems.
If anything went even slightly awry, Juno would have sailed helplessly past Jupiter, unable to complete a $1 billion mission.
They were the most terrible months of my life, for, helplessly and hopelessly, one watched the inevitable approach of war.
If you fail, you'll have a few moments of scrabbling helplessly at thin air before the world fades to white.
The pirates also cut them and sprayed them with gasoline, as they cowered helplessly in crates used to store fish.
But for every day the conflict goes on, many thousands of Yemeni parents watch helplessly as their children waste away.
So far, the only other choice, aside from helplessly watching the rise of extremism, is to mint a new coin.
Three other pigs, very much alive, are tethered by all four legs to lengths of bamboo, helplessly awaiting their turn.
The first drop is steep, and I yelp helplessly, swiftly picking up speed and losing all command of my body.
The four limb-like forms extending helplessly into the air from what looks like a mountain-torso underscore the question.
When, helplessly, you accept a server's offer of assistance, you'll be asked what you intend to eat with your wine.
Knocking out 60 percent of Syria's planes, especially while Russia stood by helplessly — that would have been a game changer.
What emerges is a subtle portrait of paternal psychological abuse, which Barney's sympathetic aunt (Cynthia Mace) can only helplessly observe.
Her friends are 212, 212, 2211 — too young to face such grief, we think helplessly, except that suddenly they must.
On Saturday, Sanchez called his son, now in the United States with his mother, listening helplessly as the boy cried.
As crowds in Paris helplessly watched the Notre-Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames on Monday night, they joined together in song.
All this time, she'd watched helplessly as report after report disappeared into the ether and all manner of abusive activity continued.
I mean, these days, who doesn't feel trapped in a club, screaming helplessly, while the vampires cavort underneath the blood sprinklers?
I wasn't shot at in a nightclub or forced to watch helplessly as a loved one died right before my eyes.
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Thousands of concerned citizens will commemorate the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump&aposs election by screaming helplessly to the sky.
But make no mistake: By continuing to hire only white men, Lucasfilm is not helplessly reflecting some unfortunate but unchangeable norm.
"I say let the audience sing," Carey helplessly offered, holding the mic out to fans while she awkwardly strutted the stage.
Television channels showed motorcycles, cars and buses in flames in Panchkula as hundreds of police personnel in riot gear watched helplessly.
The difference is the framing: in every second you recognize the impossibility of Watney's odds, and how helplessly alone he is.
Hearing the bassline in this song is like being helplessly compelled out of your seat by whatever God you believe in.
The experience was exhilarating — and not just because I knew I could careen helplessly into a wall if I wasn't careful.
When you turned it over, it would stretch out its head and its legs, and wave them helplessly in the air.
Katharine Hepburn, helplessly luminous, plays Mary with the clipped consonants, straight-backed posture and limited emotional range of a Boston debutante.
What could possibly be more heartbreaking than a mother helplessly standing beneath her child as he slowly suffers an agonizing death?
Liberals have watched helplessly as President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate reshaped the judicial system over the past two years.
That's what I find myself wondering as I hear story after story of adult women who helplessly acquiesce to sexual demands.
We can expect an increasingly assertive China to sanction a much heavier crackdown in Hong Kong while the world helplessly watches.
A 28-year-old hiker fell from a North Carolina waterfall on Saturday as his friend helplessly watched the tragedy unfold.
The bodies of the two helplessly beat against the ship's side when they were hoisted by a loop under the arms.
In the clip, a woman is seen filling her bag with items from around the house as Bryan's dogs watch helplessly.
Then, in Game 3, James stood helplessly as Durant buried a late 3-pointer that essentially gave the Warriors the victory.
There's a wry poetic justice in the spectacle of a writer, that scavenger of others' lives, helplessly furnishing material for another.
It was a tale as old as time: Balloon meets street sign, street sign wins, balloon crumples helplessly to the ground.
The fabulous fabulist David Ives adapts Pierre Corneille's 17th-century farce about a truth-challenged charmer and his helplessly honest servant.
So Augustine Charahani, the engineer, simply waited, helplessly, clinging to a staircase in the capsized vessel, caught between hope and hopelessness.
And any matter that crosses their event horizons, also known as the point of no return, spirals helplessly toward an unknown fate.
To watch The Bold Type is to both helplessly love it and to roll your eyes so hard you risk straining them.
But I watched helplessly on social media as bystanders posted videos of bearded men descending on the venue to shut it down.
On the other side, the scrappy, noble, helplessly human warriors that we've followed for the last eight seasons of Game of Thrones.
As they stare helplessly at the huge flames, only the hummingbird sets to work, carrying tiny beakfuls of water back and forth.
Thousands are gathering to mark the occasion, in Boston, New York and possibly Seattle, by bellowing helplessly at the rapidly warming sky.
So if you, too, gaze helplessly at your doc and wish you could raid his or her medicine cabinet — we got you.
Although Benny is holding on in intensive care, Gloria becomes increasingly worried her son will die while she's helplessly trapped behind bars.
Britain is thoroughly, helplessly European, and always has been, since its first prehistoric settlers blundered over the land-bridge from the continent.
Griselda Bello, who works at the clinic, waved her hands helplessly and told yet another patient to hold on a bit longer.
Its middle-aged (and older) characters, and the ghosts of the younger selves who stalk them, often appear helplessly lost in space.
But his rise irked many of his cousins, who now fear the worst as they helplessly watch the kingdom's reputation become toxic.
Or all four players might end up resembling a human centipede, wriggling around helplessly as the ball trickles towards the opposite goal.
Aid groups have watched helplessly as Libyan coast guardsmen beat migrants pulled aboard their ship and delivered them back to inhumane conditions.
Comic book lore has her falling helplessly in love with him, and following his lead as an agent of mischief and mayhem.
Mandi Jackson watched her camera feed helplessly as waves surged into the front yard of her home in St. George Island, Florida.
A beautifully directed header that arched over the keeper, leaving him to helplessly pick up the third ball out of his own net.
Fans of the sport, meanwhile, were left helplessly bemoaning what had become an open secret: The sport was dirty from top to bottom.
You grasp at thin air, flap helplessly, and then concede that yes, you've dropped it, and all your worst fears have come true.
GE has not watched helplessly as Kodak seemed to do as disruptors slowly (and then very quickly) undercut much of its economic base.
Parisians and tourists watched helplessly from the streets, while the rest of us watched the destruction unfold on our TV screens and smartphones.
He was here the night Sandy roared ashore, escaping to his daughter's home nearby, watching helplessly as his neighborhood burned to the ground.
China's obsolete navy, geared for coastal defense, was powerless to respond, and Beijing could only watch helplessly as the Taiwanese vote went ahead.
Within seconds, it was all over, and the car drove off as the nanny tried to chase after it, helplessly brandishing her handbag.
Its 400 or so indigenous residents had watched helplessly as shoreline disappeared, winter storms got fiercer, and waves lapped closer to the school.
With police watching helplessly below and passersby stopping to take photos and video, he navigated his way across the side of the building.
Why form a connection if I'd eventually have to stand by helplessly and watch my new friend get carted off to be executed?
Its subject not a guileless, helplessly honest boy, not the foibles of a particular pitiful guy who happens to be emperor, but empire.
A group of bystanders gets involved, and we glide helplessly back up in the elevator, watching the dramatic climax slide out of reach.
To drive home the point, Noga must watch helplessly as her orchestra moves up the Mozart concerto and replaces her with another harpist.
You can admire a film, reel at the horrors it unfolds, and still wind up asking yourself, helplessly, what it was all for.
According to Shanghaiist, campus officials observed helplessly as delivery people perched on top of a wall to hand out orders to hungry students.
What resonates most about the song is that it conveys the universal pain of helplessly watching a loved one deteriorate before your eyes.
Like the audience, friend Jon Voight can only watch helplessly in a scene that arrives out of nowhere without a single musical assist.
Failing miserably in my pursuit, I watched helplessly as my would-be prey lofted a desperate heave from midfield into the end zone.
She and Mr. Jovanovich were profoundly moving during Act I as these long-separated twins realize their connection and fall helplessly in love.
While sitting helplessly in the Commander's house last season, she dreamed of doing something, and this new limbo begins to make her desperate.
Perhaps helplessly, users of iPhones, Instagram and Google maps around the world have remained in thrall to the visions of California's tech innovators.
A failed Ph.D. turned part-time librarian, she works at the help desk and finds herself helplessly porous to the people around her.
I would make an instinctive start and each time slip helplessly from the chair and land in a sitting position on the floor.
Earlier this year, Xu Caiyuan watched helplessly as the numbers flashed across a computer screen in his office in Shanghai's glittering financial district.
Some buyers who actually do intend to move in are left waiting helplessly for the keys to apartments they paid for long ago.
And manufacturers watch helplessly as sales dwindle when Amazon decides to source products directly in China and redirect demand to their own products.
Literature has always been a humanist endeavor: it intrinsically and helplessly affirms the value of the species; its intimations of meaning energize and comfort.
He went 1-for-9 in the three games against Cleveland, and when it all ended, he was looking on helplessly from the dugout.
The child, no doubt dazed and bewildered after his sudden fall from his grandfather's vehicle, stumbles helplessly after the minivan as it pulls away.
Brendan says the men in charge of the parasailing boat quickly took off as his sister helplessly drifted hundreds of feet into the air.
"Some 200,85033 Puerto Ricans were forced to relocate to the United States, where they watched helplessly as the hurricane reshaped their island," Munoz said.
Corey Seager struck out on four pitches, flailing helplessly at an outside fastball, and Justin Turner flew out to center to end the inning.
You watch helplessly as the avant-garde hardens into agitprop, and see how even the most stolid of styles could be complicit in horror.
"The recovered cadavers are believed to be among those civilians who were helplessly murdered by the Maute and Abu Sayyaf terrorists," said Brig. Gen.
The couple's son, Sammy Saldivar, was driving the van and managed to escape through a window, watching helplessly as it disappeared under the water.
She almost always remains on point, and at first she moves with startling speed and impetus, as if helplessly seeking something she cannot find.
How your mind becomes a time-lapse machine, fast-forwarding to the bittersweet moment when your kid will no longer helplessly depend on you.
The story of American democracy isn't one of norms and transgressions, of order and disintegration, or a beckoning green light we swim helplessly toward.
That would be one small step toward transcending outdated stereotypes, which position boys with computers, as girls look helplessly on (or play with their dolls).
To the south, the EU has merely watched helplessly as the promises of the 2011 Arab uprisings were swallowed by counter-revolution and civil war.
We are caught in a contextual death spiral — a bottomless gyre in which we tumble forever disoriented, helplessly drinking water to save ourselves from drowning.
That's the question fans were left with after the season 7 finale ends with The Wall coming down and Tormund and Beric Dondarrion helplessly watching.
In St. Petersburg, rescuers watched helplessly as  911 calls piled up because it was just too windy and too dangerous for them to be outside.
Since Rebecca and her friends are often helplessly trying to map their fantasies onto reality, most of the show's showstoppers take place in their imaginations.
"A month ago, at this time, I was living a mothers/anyone's worst nightmare happening right infront of my eyes, helplessly," she captioned the photo.
Residents watched in tears as their homes burned down, and some were seen running around helplessly, trying to cover their faces to minimize smoke inhalation.
Florentines watched helplessly as the water rose, and the government did little at first to respond, seemingly disregarding the flood, or in disbelief of it.
He is confused and repelled by, but also helplessly sympathetic to, his egomaniacal father's desire to thwart death on behalf of the woman he loves.
Ms. Lee's head hit the ground as people walked over her, she said, and her fiancé, who was also knocked down, watched helplessly in horror.
But for as good as that film was, the original story was so much more cinematically brutal and helplessly human than what we saw onscreen.
Amy was a little better, but when it came to things like rice she tended to give up and just stare at her bowl helplessly.
We are invited into the intimate experience of helplessly watching someone, or even ourselves, lose the capacities they once had and face what that means.
The works are seductive despite their hyper-commodification of nature; you are helplessly pulled in even with an awareness of the exterior forces at work.
True enough ... she never made it past the fence and in the first case her shoelaces became entangled on the spires and she dangled helplessly.
The ship runs into disaster not long after takeoff, draining it of fuel and sending it spinning helplessly off course into the depths of space.
Last Thursday, Iowa State University sophomore Chris Jorgensen shared a photograph of this Frankenfood he'd created while rummaging helplessly through his cupboards and pantries one night.
Residents watched helplessly as the murky water poured into their homes and one flood victim, Jaunita Wilson saw her belongings starting to float around her apartment.
Residents watched helplessly as the murky water poured into their homes and one flood victim, Juanita Wilson saw her belongings starting to float around her apartment.
For 87 straight days, Gulf residents watched helplessly as oil and methane gas gushed from an uncapped wellhead, one mile below the surface of the ocean.
Sonia broke the news to Eric on the plane, and he sobbed the whole way back to Boston, as concerned flight attendants helplessly offered their services.
Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.
His patriotism recognizes how helplessly dependent we are on a network of associations and communal energy, of which we become fully aware only as it disappears.
"Worthless Animal," from last year's Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, was inspired by Clarke helplessly watching as he saw a struggling homeless man attacked in Los Angeles.
The helicopter metaphor is an odd one, since helicopters can often only hover, helplessly, as in the Vietnam-era newsreels, as the action goes on below.
And increasingly Trump is cornered, as he faces Robert Mueller's criminal investigation and watches helplessly as his entourage gets picked off one by one by indictments.
The thought creates a feeling—the thought might at first be only an abstract idea or a memory, but a feeling follows on from it helplessly.
In each parallel, Wiseau figures as the predatory, isolated, and desolate figure whose desperation for companionship and deep ambition draws Sestero helplessly into a codependent relationship.
For a taste of sweet harmony, try this video of students in Rome singing the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Helplessly Hoping" a cappella from their homes.
You may remember parents watching helplessly as half of their home equity and their retirement investments evaporated, at least on paper, after the 2008 financial crisis.
Instead, they have watched helplessly as those visions fell victim to the intraparty division, dysfunction and gridlock that one-party control had been expected to eliminate.
Lesser men may have simply watched helplessly as the phone plummeted to Earth, no doubt getting destroyed in the process, but Kempf is not lesser men.
Really, though, "Baelor" is all about poor Ned Stark (Sean Bean) losing his head, as his daughters Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Arya (Maisie Williams) watch helplessly.
His ego having slipped from his fingers, he's watching it, helplessly, floating away on the wind, watching his own subjectivity dissipate while losing himself in the music.
Ending up along the ropes Canelo would sit helplessly on the end of two or three right jabs and a flicking right straight before eventually circling off.
Bryant watches helplessly as Lakers fall in Denver DENVER — Kobe Bryant said he owed it to the Nuggets fans to play in his final trip to Denver.
All Austin Potter wanted to do was take advantage of the weather, but a sunny day ended in tragedy as his girlfriend watched helplessly from the shore.
According to Newsweek, which still exists, thousands of concerned citizens will commemorate the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump&aposs election by screaming helplessly to the sky.
But in this path, John ends his story middle-aged, divorced, and watching helplessly as tensions among his superpowered friends escalate into fascist dystopia and guerilla warfare.
On Sunday, animal rescue operation Berufstierrettung Rhein Neckar responded to the scene to find a rat squealing helplessly as it attempted to free itself from the manhole.
In ENDEMIC the decimated hood of a BMW crashes through a Rubens painting, The Massacre of Innocents, where children lie helplessly in pools of their own blood.
Yet photos of Kelly, staring helplessly at his shoes Tuesday as Trump drew new equivalencies between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, told their own story.
Moore's experience was a constant, life-threatening scenario, which was re-traumatizing not only to him, but to those of us who watched helplessly by his bedside.
Made in a time of vast inequality around the world, this sculpture also may be read as a satirical critique of a world helplessly enthralled by money.
But in the midst of sleeping on friends' couches and watching helplessly as her world got turned upside down, Quinn began to realize that she wasn't alone.
In these moments—these shameful and pathetic moments—as I lay helplessly beside a pile of snot-filled Popeye's napkins, the same thought creeps into my mind.
He could either sell his company, and abandon something he'd spent years building, or watch helplessly as the government choked it to death with taxes and regulations.
There were episodes when they spoke over one another, not just for a few sentences but for entire paragraphs, while the journalists moderating the debate watched helplessly.
In her Sueños (Dreams), as the montages were known, women daydream inside a corked bottle, or drown helplessly in a living room as fish snap at them.
The dust devil whipped by a group of paragliders at Mount Borah and caught the man, spinning him around while his wife helplessly filmed the whole thing.
That's the stage of the process where the only thing one can do with a Windows machine is stare helplessly at a progress indicator that lies to you.
Matt, a dapper toothpaste salesman, and his wife, Kim, a soft-spoken physical therapist, seemed helplessly in love with each other, but the hunt quickly turned passive-aggressive.
If you cause enough trouble in the city and try to escape by swimming away, you may see soldiers and mechs and airships plopping helplessly into the ocean.
The Hansens left the home with Milo and watched helplessly as the roof caught fire and collapsed, destroying almost all of the family's material possessions in the process.
In "Insurrection" (2016), a raging fire overwhelms the Bureau of Printing and Engraving (where US paper currency is produced) as the Washington Monument stands helplessly in the background.
So he naturally went ahead and did what any young dog would do when it's not entirely housebroken: He peed in the fireplace while officials helplessly looked on.
Gazing up at the television, I watched as W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes, floating in a swimming pool, drank himself into a stupor while his mother helplessly looked on.
Tucked away in a dimly lit gallery was the Circe vase, which showed Odysseus pursuing Circe with his sword drawn as his pigheaded men trail helplessly behind him.
Former Nxvim publicist Frank Parlato blew the whistle on the group last summer, and got video of Mack standing by helplessly on Monday as Mexican cops arrested Raniere.
Vanderbilt, who looked on helplessly during Carter's final moments, says her bond with Anderson became stronger after Carter's death, even if holidays like Christmas were never the same.
This country has been pushed helplessly to and fro by the pounding waves of History, as much sinned against as sinning, same as other nations on the globe.
Most coaches are former players with decades of experience who now watch mostly helplessly as post-adolescents try to implement months of training in a few essential seconds.
The style is informal and sometimes fascinatingly awkward, as if a musical impulse in one part of the body directed other parts of the body to move helplessly.
My notes on the toad did exhibit some of Michaux's incoherence, though even in that initial attempt at fashioning an account I found myself reaching helplessly for metaphor.
When he started to "storm" as a result of his injured brain's inability to regulate his body — breathing rapidly, blood pressure and temperature soaring — they looked on helplessly.
But in this moment, all we can do is watch as our player character is caught, drowns, and drifts helplessly deeper and deeper into the murky water's depths.
"While the event calls upon people to Scream Helplessly, we want to convert that sense of helplessness into resistance, into action, and maybe even into optimism," Schulman added.
Among the dead are an 8-year-old boy who was found by his mother and a woman who drowned in her house while her husband watched helplessly.
For Hays and West, it has meant chasing a more unknowable and elusive evil all these years — and helplessly watching as the casualties pile up along the way.
If you're seeking a healthier and more mindful mental state, it seems more difficult to do so while staying helplessly tethered to a smartphone screen and LTE data connection.
Bryant played just 11 minutes and he watched helplessly on the bench as the Nuggets rallied past the Los Angeles Lakers for a 117-107 win on Wednesday night.
"We're going to put him on trial, then we'll hang him until he's dead!" the baddie says, as Jack flails helplessly, standing in the background between two armed guards.
The Warriors, aligned on the perimeter far from the basket, passed the ball six times with so much speed that the defenders helplessly scrambled a step or two behind.
"I'm sure if we were together for two minutes, he would be flattering me and I would be helplessly flattering him again," Wolff said in a "Squawk Box " interview.
Modern Love On this week's podcast, Bobby Cannavale reads "A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance," about the bigger-than-bullies battles you must helplessly watch them face.
Bill Nighy takes center stage as the narcissistic daredevil Billy Mack, but it's Laura Linney who gives the movie its tender core as the overextended yet helplessly smitten Sarah.
They drove along Huff Creek Road, an isolated path lined thick with pine and sweet gum trees, for three miles as Mr. Byrd was helplessly flung side to side.
Syrian people wanted freedom from Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, but watched helplessly as their uprising was largely hijacked by jihadi extremists seeking to establish various forms of harsh Islamic rule.
It roils our cultural dialogue, poisons social media and — as is frequently, and somewhat helplessly, observed — it curdles much of our politics into a zero-sum game of tribal loathing.
With runners at second and third and just one out, Strasburg made Jose Altuve look foolish, getting him to swing helplessly at a curveball in the dirt for a strikeout.
If Opportunity's solar panels get blown clean, but NASA is only passively listening for a signal, and not sending it "wake up" commands, the rover might just sit there helplessly.
This led to several frustrating moments spent helplessly watching my art unmaking itself far beyond what I intended, knowing I would have to immediately turn the dial back forward again.
Now, Tony Burditus finds himself among survivors of the Las Vegas massacre who share a distinctive grief: they watched helplessly as their loved ones perished amid the barrage of gunfire.
The common denominator between apocalypse-fears and electronic music is, perhaps, the vague idea of a nerd behind a computer, subverting a helplessly analogue society with his alienated disco tunes.
Forecasters watched helplessly as a true monster storm—one that would eventually become the most extreme rain event in recorded American history—moved toward Houston, the country's fourth-largest city.
Given how alive and helplessly engrossed van Gogh seems to have been during his sojourn in Arles, "Crab on Its Back," might best be read as a veiled self-portrait.
Every imagined Utopia, from Plato to the present day, helplessly becomes a Dystopia, almost certainly because the writers just couldn't resist the urge to make the "place" sound halfway interesting.
Less than three hours later, Ms. Dennis was standing outside Mr. McCree's school, watching helplessly as paramedics rushed her son into an ambulance to take him to the same hospital.
But there was little hope of evacuation until Wednesday, raising the prospect that many seriously wounded victims of the attack would die overnight as ill-equipped rescuers stood by helplessly.
Ms. Peck is in the relationship characterized by the most violence — her partner, Taylor Stanley, carries her offstage at one point while she helplessly shakes her head in unhappy perplexity.
Their relationship is passionately erotic and ardently intellectual; Jakobe, again like some heroine out of D. H. Lawrence, is helplessly attracted to Per, despite the blaring correctives from her conscience.
Michele has two nephews, who, he said, are scared of a lot of things in the apartment—an animal skull sits atop a dresser—though they are also helplessly fascinated.
But these films approach heavy topics with the kind of light touch that's only appropriate for a moment when all we can do is laugh helplessly as the world burns.
But we must move swiftly lest we see the armored forces meant to deter Russia from invasion forced to watch helplessly one day as Putin devours his victims from within.
For all her putative capacity to drive strong men mad with longing, however, she is eventually obliged to look on helplessly as Drogo wastes away and dies, perhaps from boredom.
Dozens of towns were besieged with heavy weapons and villages were burned down as 22,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops stood by more or less helplessly, with orders not to take sides.
In a short span of six weeks, they told me, 13 students at the club lost a parent to a drug overdose -- 11 watched helplessly as their mom or dad died.
Ko dropped two shots and gave renewed hope to her pursuers, who had been watching helplessly in the proverbial rear-view mirror as the Korean threatened to run away with it.
CLARITY, it bellows at us in a helplessly anonymous sans serif font, while transmitting that message with the use of flashing images of ice, ice crystals, snowflakes, and snow-covered mountains.
"If construction overlaps, there won't be enough workers and wages will rise, making houses more expensive," said Toba, who watched helplessly from the city hall roof as the town was destroyed.
The second is that we will design an artificially intelligent system, give it some goal, and then stand helplessly by as it seeks to implement that goal regardless of human interests.
The mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova, as Brangäne, Isolde's maid, excelled during the mystical moment when she watches helplessly, full of foreboding, as Isolde and Tristan fall fatefully into each other's arms.
He watched helplessly as Ancrum dragged Mungin into his car and began driving toward the trailer park's main exit—only to surrender coolly and without protest when deputies arrived seconds later.
It's mid-February, a time of year when the outside world looks increasingly like a toilet bowl and you feel increasingly like a piece of shit floating helplessly around inside it.
The wheel just popped off the shaft and he found himself holding it in his right hand, you could almost feel him helplessly blinking at the camera like Wile E. Coyote.
Turner was on deck at the end of Game 7 of the World Series last fall, watching helplessly as Corey Seager grounded out to clinch the championship for the Houston Astros.
Democrats have won control of the House of Representatives, according to calls by multiple media outlets — which means their days of standing by just helplessly watching President Donald Trump are gone.
But it was a Pyrrhic victory at best, requiring manipulations so unlikely to occur naturally that it only reinforced the notion that we are helplessly trapped in the flow of time.
Mr. King, who said most of his Republican colleagues wished the president would tweet less, added that whenever he had raised the issue with White House staff members, they shrugged helplessly.
If only accredited investors can participate in private market offerings, isn't this one more example of the elite having special advantages while the rest of America watches helplessly from the sidelines?
We're in the same boat with you; staring at our closets helplessly in the morning and wondering which of our go-tos will keep us warm and cool at the same time.
I never use the broom; when I do, a fluffy mass of hair and dust bunnies gathers in its blue straws, many which stick out at odd angles, helplessly raking the air.
He took a few seconds to let it settle, and took a magnificent strike to send the ball to the near post, with Arsenal keeper Petr Čech helplessly grasping to redeem himself.
Hundreds of scared animals were helplessly fending for themselves in the midst of the raging California wildfires, that is until an army of humans descended on the ravaged areas to save them.
The Astros batters took huge swings over biting changeups, watched helplessly as fastballs dotted the corner; Scherzer, with his violent throwing motion, screamed and fistpumped as the outs continued to pile up.
I know this challenge isn't unique to food allergies, our family has lived it with cancer treatments and asthma inhalers, and watched helplessly while friends with diabetes struggle with surging insulin prices.
As it returned to the battlefield, the StarPro hero drove underneath it, trapping it in limbo over the obstacle course, leaving its back wheels spinning helplessly a few inches off the ground.
Unable to influence politics through voting, and with no recourse in federal court, African-Americans were forced to stand by helplessly as the horrors of Jim Crow took root across the South.
In the 20555 years since the group's breakthrough debut, "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?" its glamorous singer, Emily Haines, has grown only more helplessly, brutally confessional about her own foibles.
It's horrifying to sit helplessly on the sidelines and watch his playground bully tactics work not only with leaders of other countries, but also with our own Congress and with his cabinet.
It wasn't lost on me that of the five embodied boroughs, the one who comes to love the primary avatar of New York most fiercely and helplessly is also the newest transplant.
It wasn't lost on me that of the five embodied boroughs, the one who comes to love the primary avatar of New York most fiercely and helplessly is also the newest transplant.
Last season, Penn State beat Ohio State and won the Big Ten title, however, its record hurt by early-season losses, it watched helplessly as the Buckeyes sailed into the playoff anyway.
Like the United States in 1957, watching helplessly as the Soviet Union launched the first human-made satellite, many people in China now see how far the country still has to go.
While he rushes forward across the globe, his thoughts revert helplessly to his cruel father, to old patriarchal punishments and curses, to his impacted masculinity and his emotional imprisonment as a husband.
Helplessly, I thought of my own father, who died when I was 11, and those old emotions, stored away but never far off, took hold of me as if I were graveside.
I surfed my car through the corner, my wheels spinning helplessly for grip, and only managed to hold onto my podium finish because of the traffic jam caused by the accident behind me.
The San Jose Sharks won't soon forget the last time they faced off against Pittsburgh, watching helplessly as the visiting Penguins hoisted the Stanley Cup with a 3-33 victory on June 12.
While they're on their way, and right before Yara and Ellaria make out in earnest, their ships are attacked by Euron, who takes Yara hostage as Theon — back in coward mode — watches helplessly.
The Americans complain that too often their firms had to hand over technology as a condition of access to the Chinese market, and then watched helplessly as partners ran off with their ideas.
Helplessly, one's eye is drawn to the area it points to—a wood-paneled space where uniform black chairs and nondescript wall clocks are placed strategically, it seems, at odds with each other.
Rather than helplessly pining for the U.S. while rushing into the embrace of China and Xi Jinping key Asian states are working amongst themselves to increase inter-Asian connectivity and balance against China.
She has plenty of backup but can only stand by and watch helplessly as her colleagues are shot down by the Joker and his crew, who are prepared for every move she makes.
While your fellow campers are having fun around the campfire, you're left there spending an exorbitant amount of time pumping air, helplessly struggling, until your arms and all of your limbs go numb.
"A month ago, at this time, I was living a mothers/anyone's worst nightmare happening right infront of my eyes, helplessly," Spears captioned a March 6 photo of Maddie holding her baby cousin.
St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN)When the winds kicked up as Hurricane Irma made its way up Florida's west coast, rescue workers watched helplessly as the 911 calls piled up on a computer screen.
Despite having an astounding array of nearby infrastructure in the Gulf, we watched BP oil gush for months while clean-up crews flailed helplessly with ineffective ad-hoc efforts at plugging the hole.
"She's watched a dozen doctors throw a mask over his face, poke and prod him with needles, pump a dozen medications through his body, all while he laid there helplessly," the mother said.
"Our competitors in Australia and Canada will now benefit from those provisions, as US farmers watch helplessly," said US Wheat Associates President Vince Peterson at a hearing on the potential negotiations with Japan.
But what really makes "American Crime" pay off is its own stark system: even as we get helplessly attached to certain characters, their stories end, often violently, and the show coolly moves on.
At first I was disappointed to see the mess of bottles and mud, a cleaning man in bright yellow and green looking on helplessly: I had thought Arafat would be austere and clean.
Brodie falls helplessly in love with Kilbarron's mistress, the aspiring Russian singer Lika Blum (who responds, in kind), and follows to St. Petersburg the whole musical entourage, including the pianist's menacing brother, Malachi.
Neighbors clustered below, whispering in English and Yiddish about how hours before some had watched helplessly as an early-morning blaze tore through the home in the largely Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community.
" And: "Research tells us that we are not helplessly at the mercy of a hypocritical brain—under the right circumstances we can be equally sensitive to our own and to others' moral transgressions.
Video on social media shows the train, which was traveling Saturday evening from the western state of Gujarat to Odisha state in the east, speeding past stations as onlookers and passengers scream helplessly.
Freeport, Bahamas (CNN)As Hurricane Dorian ravaged Freeport, the main city on Grand Bahama, fisherman Howard Armstrong had to watch helplessly as his wife died in the rising flood that claimed their home.
She's a pretty smart work of group fiction written in the grip of a pretty dumb panic, an avatar for a collective spirit that is less vengeful than guilty, anxious and helplessly angry.
Instead of defeating a sea witch who looks suspiciously like Divine and living happily ever after with her man, the original story's nameless heroine watches helplessly as the prince marries her diabolical rival.
She eventually reemerges, but continues to adorably retreat back to a crouching position, looking up helplessly at a girl standing next to her and, at one point, miming banging her head against the railing.
She eventually reemerged but continued to adorably retreat back to a crouching position, looking up helplessly at a girl standing next to her and, at one point, miming banging her head against the railing.
"A month ago, at this time, I was living a mothers/anyone's worst nightmare happening right in front of my eyes, helplessly," Spears captioned an early March photo of Maddie holding her baby cousin.
The women he left behind in New Zealand helplessly watched his star rise for well over a decade, unmarred by even a whisper of the wreckage he had left behind in his home country.
She eventually reemerged, but continued to adorably retreat back to a crouching position, looking up helplessly at a girl standing next to her and, at one point, miming banging her head against the railing.
In one, a woman identified as Sybil "plays with her down prisoner," who's trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey under several puffy layers, including a sleeping bag, rolling helplessly on a nylon-sheeted bed.
Helplessly sitting in a traffic jam absolutely has to be one of the most annoying parts of the modern human experience, and that is why what one taco truck did recently was truly heroic.
The financial crisis of 2009 leveled my savings and equity in my home, and I watched helplessly as Barack and Hillary bailed out the "too big to fail" one percent elites on Wall Street.
On the bad days, when nothing is "working," you are trapped in a living nightmare, helplessly enslaved to an oppressive and delusional belief system that has swallowed nearly every moment of your waking life.
"The most remarkable aspect of the list is the pedagogical mind-set its title reveals," Moser wryly notes, attuned to the ways that even Sontag's bodily exploits still ended up becoming something helplessly cerebral.
There was little the minister could do but look on helplessly as the night wore on, with temperatures well below freezing, until morning came and authorities claimed they had retaken control of the hotel.
With four seconds left, Lucke dribbled the ball past midcourt, deftly crossed his defender up (who fell helplessly to the ground) and launched a deep shot from several feet behind the three-point line.
Heritage sat by helplessly in 2003 while President George W. Bush, dismaying conservative purists, promoted and then signed into law a new federal entitlement that used Medicare to extend prescription benefits to senior citizens.
In recent days, Ms. Zhang, 25, a perfume saleswoman with tinted blue hair, had watched helplessly as one by one, her relatives were sickened by the coronavirus that was tearing through her hometown, Wuhan.
Sanchez, hitting for the slumping Chase Headley, watched two pitches go by and then took a strong hack — and watched helplessly as he lofted a high pop fly that did not leave the infield.
And the Yankees' Alfonso Soriano, a rising star at second base who stood by helplessly as Spencer's wild throw sailed over his head on its way to Jeter, had not been named on any.
Despite many stints in rehab, Nic had recovered and relapsed, recovered and relapsed, over and over, all while his parents (who split up when he was young) alternately watched helplessly and tried to intervene.
Auto executives say they need to avoid the nightmare tech scenario of becoming the next "handset makers" — commodity suppliers of hardware, helplessly watching all the profits flow to software makers like Apple and Alphabet.
The Senate has passed a pro-MMA bill for the last seven years running, and in each of those years they then watched helplessly as their bill died upon reaching the Democratic-controlled State Assembly.
On the beach, a friend of Miller's helplessly watched as the Pennsylvania native threw her hands in the hair and attempted to get help while she was dragged out to sea, according to the outlet.
Organized by color to create fantastical shapes like a giant droplet of water and an enormous, vibrant typhoon, the bottles served as the backdrop for mermaids in peril, helplessly trapped among the mass of refuse.
A distraught Timberlake watches helplessly as Shephard and the others step on his guitar, but is all smiles and a true sportsman when Ashton Kutcher later saunters up to the house to set him free.
Trapped, as a war zone scene played out before them, they watched helplessly as a wounded colleague, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, dragged himself along the ground -- leaving a trail of blood on the infield.
A shocking early season twist that leaves Findlay's Charlotte Wells dead in the foyer in Golden Square, helplessly bleeding out after a horrifying semi-accident involving Allen's Isaac Pincher at the top of the stairs.
Because it leaves your body helplessly stuck in the physical world while your mind wanders, V.R. doesn't fit with the way most people work at a computer, watch TV or encounter many other digital experiences.
Marital Mode: The Zombie's dual-zone climate controls will blow air from two entirely incompatible temperature-and-fan settings onto the front-seat passengers, inciting them to squabble and reach helplessly for the dashboard panel.
In "Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed," Munch portrays himself standing at attention, facing the viewer with his hands dangling helplessly at his sides, poised between time (the clock) and death (the bed).
It turns out to be the binge of doom, and although the crash itself is never shown, we do glimpse John's VW Beetle lying helplessly upside down, as if waving its legs in the air.
The camera showed a horrifying tunnel of gray fury worsening by the hour as Dr. Lackey, a 242-year-old radiologist, stared helplessly from more than 21995 miles away at the corner of his roof.
On Twitter, the novelist Robert Harris recently compared the atmosphere to the months before Britain entered World War I, when the authorities watched helplessly as they were dragged toward war by the momentum of events.
He had averaged 6.6 walks per nine innings in the regular season, and he watched helplessly as Pat Neshek — a soft thrower with savvy — allowed a two-run triple to an Arizona pitcher, Archie Bradley.
They watched helplessly as Turkish jets this week killed several of their former neighbors and their 70-year-old grandfather fled his home after Turkey began its cross-border offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia.
If you believe in musicals, then your mind will turn helplessly to another bench, and another couple, at the close of day: Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, in Central Park, in "The Band Wagon" (1953).
The orange fish isn't capable of much—largely useless in battle, it does little more than flop on its side, flailing helplessly as it wonders why you yanked it from the water in the first place.
Following the tragic incident, Logan's friends Trina Frazier, 24, Aaliyah Frazier, 23 and Kenyatta Burch, 23, who watched helplessly as Logan died, remained on the scene until authorities arrived, shocked by the terrifying turn of events.
The 33-year-old had a close friend from high school who was struck down by aggressive colon cancer, and he watched helplessly as the family struggled to get access to all of his friend's accounts.
Suicide Squad has some great ideas, like the team slowly coming to respect and voluntarily cooperate with their field handler, Rick Flag, because he's brave, competent, and helplessly in love with Enchantress' alter ego, June Moone.
When I see this GIF, all that consumes my mind is that the fictional astronaut will continue to shriek helplessly, as he hurdles through endless nothingness with no objects to grab, no net to catch him.
What do you do when you're getting blown out 49-15 on the doorstep of the Super Bowl, watching helplessly as one of the most successful seasons in franchise history comes to a miserably disastrous end?
The sole drawback for these performers must be the material — Ms. Yeoh coasts through her role; Mr. Jones cavorts like a child in a sandbox; and Ms. Alba struggles helplessly to invigorate her damsel in distress.
He observed his TV screen helplessly as a bar in Florida was shot down by one hostile man simply because of the fact that it was meant for people who are attracted to the same sex.
If "In the Lonely Hour" was the myopic look into the heart of a boy helplessly in love, then the new album, "The Thrill of It All," is about a man who turns his gaze outward.
But Bird was ruing the moment he could not deliver, when he was shielded slightly by Machado, the base runner at first, and watched helplessly as the ball ticked off his glove and into right field.
Yale watches helplessly as, one by one, his friends fall victim to the disease, while trying to maintain his relationship and his job at Northwestern's art gallery, which may be about to acquire a major collection.
Taras Bulba, a Cossack captain fighting for Ukraine with his two sons, kills one son for betraying the cause (over love for a Polish girl) and watches helplessly as the other is killed by his enemies.
I read the news the same way I recently watched a TV show about dermatological surgery: rapt with revulsion, face half-averted, squinting helplessly at the moist plops and glistening excisions through the chinks in my fingers.
Kristoffersen, third after the opening leg, held on to stay in pole position ahead of Manuel Feller but could only watch helplessly as his great rival Hirscher did just enough to claim the lead by 0.11 seconds.
Just by seeing a roach, your mind is instantly filled with thoughts of tiny, icky insect feet crawling all over every inch of your skin, as you flail  helplessly about — like the inferior being that you are.
The now 74-year-old Badame thought there was nothing he could do but watch helplessly as his life was dismantled, piece-by-piece, and sold to buyers during an estate sale at the end of September.
Often he will be sitting on his opponent's legs and unable to really get his hips in on the hitting but the arm punches are more than enough when he has his opponent so helplessly stretched out.
VILLA DEL ROSARIO, Colombia — For the third straight day, a few hundred Venezuelan military defectors loafed around tightly guarded Colombian hotels watching helplessly through social media as the uprising to topple President Nicolas Maduro fizzled in Caracas.
In Argentina (and Uruguay), provoleta is tossed on the grill like a steak, but unless you are very experienced, you risk losing the cheese that way, watching helplessly as it melts and drips into the fire below.
Qué Pasa Media Network reports that a 19-year-old Honduran boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as he was about to go to school in North Carolina, while his parents looked on helplessly.
But on the anniversary of the election that made Donald Trump America's 45th president, thousands of Americans are trying out a new tack: banding together, craning their necks to the heavens, and screaming helplessly at the sky.
In a moment that stunned Washington, Trump cut a debt and disaster aid deal Wednesday with Congress' Democratic leaders as Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell watched on helplessly, after lobbying unsuccessfully for much different terms.
When we spent some time in the police command center, which includes dozens of new-looking TV screens displaying feeds from hundreds of street cameras, the officers watched helplessly as a car chase zipped across the screens.
Each situation is a race against the clock—the longer you do nothing, the more chances increase that you can't regain control of the story, and will helplessly watch it cascade into more bad press and public hubbub.
But he also watched helplessly as the state's Republican-controlled House rejected his handpicked candidate for the powerful position of speaker, a post that, by curious unwritten custom, the Louisiana governor has long had the right to select.
Murray's hopes of becoming the first Briton to retain a grand slam title since Fred Perry in 1003 were shredded as he hobbled helplessly to a 3-6 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1 6-1 defeat.
On a local news talk show last week, Ms. Tsai rejected an assertion that Taiwan was being helplessly drawn into tensions between the United States and China "Many people say we are pawns of other people," she said.
Even if our desires were implanted by evolution rather than inculcated by culture, they're still always helplessly double: altruistic impulses encourage us to look after our tribe; genocidal ones encourage us to get rid of the neighboring tribe.
PARIS — Justine Henin, a four-time French Open champion, watched helplessly from the players' box high above the court Wednesday, unable to hit those gleaming down-the-line backhands that had dictated so many matches in her favor.
The freeze on warehousing charges, in particular, will be broadly welcomed by market users who have had to watch helplessly a counterintuitive upwards spiral of headline rents and load-out charges that has been running for many years.
So I am full of sympathy with the outpouring of meaning-making in its wake: for online observers declaring, as several have, that helplessly watching an eight-centuries-old emblem of civilization burn is the epitome of 2019.
Devils rally to beat Rangers NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Devils defenseman David Schlemko watched helplessly with the game in the balance as his ghastly turnover unleashed New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh for a third-period, shorthanded breakaway.
Yet I missed the elements that make Mr. Boyle's original film such an achievement: the nuanced humanity amid the ugly, brutal mayhem; the hallucinatory sense of becoming detached from reality and helplessly submerged in some other psychic landscape.
Astros outfielder Marwin Gonzalez drifted back on the ball as if he had a play on it, but after he reached the warning track and then the wall, he looked up helplessly as it landed in the pavilion.
As river levels rose, spilling over levees and swallowing up townships, farmers watched helplessly as the waters consumed not only their fields, but their stockpiles of grain, the one thing that can stand between them and financial ruin.
The next put an abrupt end to a baseline rally as it practically carved a hole in the clay, landing very close to the net with backspin as Gasquet watched helplessly, and a bit wistfully, from far away.
At the time of the shooting, police learned that Thomas' four children: an 11-year-old boy, 9-year-old boy, 6-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl watched helplessly as their father was attacked.
When she brings up his affair, he complains, though visibly, helplessly aware of how ludicrous and pathetic he sounds, about all those other times in his sexy, successful twenties, when he could have cheated on her but didn't.
It was a moment that would live in pop culture infamy for years: the image of a shell-shocked Taylor Swift standing helplessly on the MTV Video Music Awards stage as Kanye West ripped the microphone from her hands.
Forward Harrison Barnes scored 22, but as he was trying to get off a game-tying 3-point attempt with five seconds to go, Barnes lost control of his dribble and helplessly watched the ball roll out of bounds.
The girl formerly known as Arya Stark is at the center of what might be the episode's strongest scene, a montage of her slow rise from helplessly blind to exactly the kind of assassin Jaqen has been looking for.
Here is another: When Lincoln stood outside the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 1861, to deliver his inaugural address, he removed his already famous stovepipe hat and looked helplessly for a place to set it down while he spoke.
Forward Harrison Barnes scored 143, but as he was trying to get off a game-tying 214-point attempt with five seconds to go, Barnes lost control of his dribble and helplessly watched the ball roll out of bounds.
Having established a democracy of, by and for the people, it would have been unimaginable that the elected leaders of the people would stand by helplessly while innocent men, women and children were being harmed by a government shutdown.
They tend to telescope Cold War events from its start to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 85033 with little regard to the instances when the West stood by helplessly while Moscow had its way during international incidents.
The designer makes an animation of dozens of identical human bodies in varying metallic hues running frantically as if competing in a marathon, only to hit a suspended finish line causing their bodies to limp to the floor helplessly.
Jackie Bradley Jr., who hit another big home run for Boston, watched helplessly from center field as the play unfolded, hoping along with legions of Red Sox fans around the country that his teammate would avert a sporting disaster.
In trying to take Mr. Noor down, Mr. Ghani's aides have portrayed him as helplessly corrupt, saying that he takes a cut from every business, and that he has hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in foreign bank accounts.
The same fur fervor that causes people to mourn helplessly the death of Cecil the Lion, watch a runaway llama or consider depressed pandas at the zoo is in these cases channeled into helpful community activity rather than selfies.
Over the past decade, many unscrupulous developers here allowed projects to stall midway for lack of ready capital and used home buyers' deposits to begin work on the next project, leaving families stripped of their savings to protest helplessly.
The flashy wideout, who was limited in practice on Thursday and Friday, watched helplessly as New York's vanilla offense mustered just two first downs in the first half en route to a 19-3 setback versus Dallas last weekend.
Yet after his death, reprints of his early works flew off the shelves—an ending fitting of one of his tales, which often leave the reader uncertain whether to chuckle helplessly at life's cruel absurdity or succumb to its ineffable sadness.
After video emerged of Donald Trump describing sexually assaulting women, and other women came forward to recount their personal experiences with the Republican presidential nominee, I watched helplessly as conversations all around me turned to the topic of sexual assault.
The frightened mountain biker tries to tell himself not to look left and not to look right, screams helplessly a bunch of times, essentially curses at the course, and then thank the higher beings for letting him get down safe.
I am not now, nor will I ever be, that old dude angrily and helplessly shaking his wrinkled fist at gentrification—a natural process that, in the long view, is as beneficial as it seems destructive, like everything else in life.
Nemeti is one of 450 residents of Camping River, an officially-sanctioned encampment for Roma people in the Italian capital, who looked on helplessly when police started to evict families from the camp in late June and then destroyed their homes.
For three months, she'd watched helplessly as he fought a losing battle for his life — much of it in a coma and connected to a ventilator — while teams of specialists tried unsuccessfully to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria devouring his body.
Americans and American lives are so wrapped up in the day to day promises and religion of capital—are so helplessly addicted to the rush of more, more, more, more pleasure, now, more food, more love, more winning, more, MORE MORE!
Coutinho then helped set up Liverpool's second goal just three minutes into the second half, and got his second goal minutes later, when he redirected a cross that Nathaniel Clyne smoked into the goal area, again leaving Cech helplessly flailing.
If the person giving you CBT is a trainee and only reading off of a print-out, shrugging helplessly when you ask personalized questions (this happened to me twice), tell your general practiononer or them that you need someone else.
And in a quietly thrashing solo — helplessly driven — she paced to and fro within a limited space, bending low from the waist in a fixed rhythm during a sequence in which she also shookher head rapidly from side to side.
It's frightening to watch Thurman wrestle with the car, as it drifts off the road and smashes into a palm tree, her contorted torso heaving helplessly until crew members appear in the frame to pull her out of the wreckage.
This Samuel Johnson, we soon come to understand, is dead, and his particular brand of purgatory is to have his consciousness shuttled helplessly into the body of the nearest living being at hand whenever the one he is inhabiting expires.
Girardi's worries about Holliday appeared justified in the second inning when he circled unsteadily under a foul pop-up by Andrelton Simmons and with a last, desperate backhand stab, watched helplessly as it glanced off his glove for an error.
Jimmy Fallon is at his best when he's helplessly corpsing during a segment — it doesn't matter whether it's mid-interview with Sarah Paulson or, in the case of the clip above, during a spoof commercial for a dodgy law firm.
Howard Schultz's potential independent White House bid is simply infuriating, and it's maddening to feel helplessly tangled in the gilded web of global intrigue emanating from the president, his plutocrat dictator pals and America's retail overlord, the philandering Jeff Bezos.
The whole thing started with the indelible image of Brett Favre watching helplessly from the Vikings sideline as the New Orleans Saints ended his dreams of a second Super Bowl ring with a long return, a first down and a field goal.
This might seem helplessly corny or even naive as a way to combat the towering systems of inequality that drive the world, but Orange Is the New Black so earnestly believes in its philosophies that it's not hard to hope change might come.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former guard at New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex brutally and repeatedly kicked an inmate in the head in 2012 while the man lay helplessly, leading directly to his death, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Friday.
Of course, the whole thing ends up being a ruse: Jaime Lannister has pulled most of the Lannister forces away from the castle, and Grey Worm watches helplessly from Casterly Rock as the Unsullied ships are destroyed, effectively stranding him and his men.
According to the lawsuit, Kardashian was assaulted and robbed by two masked men who put a gun to her head, duct-taped her hands, legs and mouth, and left her lying helplessly on the bathroom floor while they left with the jewelry.
LONDON (Reuters) - Dangling helplessly from a zip-wire while waving British Union Jack flags, Boris Johnson and his attempt to publicize a party in one of London's parks became one of the most memorable non-sporting moments of the 2012 Olympic Games.
The description was enough to cause a visceral reaction, in part because it reminded me of a disturbing YouTube video I saw recently of a distressed monkey swaddled from head to toe in a snowsuit, bouncing helplessly as people watch and laugh.
K., her 2-year-old daughter, Birdy) becomes helplessly unstrung when she discovers she cannot remove her own fingers, and the discipline-driven tantrum, in which a 2-year old (still Birdy) responds poorly to censure for spreading ointment on her crackers.
He has described the Presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as a choice "between two helplessly gesticulating models of normality, one of which appeared to be delegitimatized, the other unproven," and is unsurprised that so many people preferred the latter.
Helicopters rescued 20 crew members from the 656-foot (200-meter) Golden Ray on Sunday after it became disabled, began listing and eventually sat helplessly on its side in St. Simons Sound, near Brunswick, Georgia, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
He also stood by helplessly when a fire killed three astronauts on a launchpad in 1967, but he helped devise the ingenious plan that saved the Apollo 133 crew after an explosion crippled their spacecraft en route to the moon in 1970.
In this case, I'm guessing they hung the Ravagers up there just so we, along with Rocket, could enjoy the sight of the bad guys—or in Guardians of the Galaxy, maybe we should say the worse guys—swimming helplessly in midair.
And there's more: Just as in 2016, the panel of moderators this time around have increasingly abandoned their role and are watching helplessly while their questions are used as mere props with which to launch a fresh round of off-topic attacks.
Blessed, or burdened, with psychic gifts, she reaches out helplessly to the world beyond—in particular, to her twin brother, Lewis, who, not long ago, succumbed to a heart complaint from which she also suffers, and which could fell her at any time.
On the one hand, the narrator has a greedy sexual hunger for Mitko, and may indeed be in love with him; his neediness for someone who appears likely to abandon him seems helplessly bound up with the trauma of his father's abandonment.
But it's also an essential exploration of migration to Europe from the perspective of characters who feel they have no choice but to go, and others who watch helplessly as their loved ones risk their lives for the promise of better opportunities.
"All the progress we've made since 1965 to educate people about the hazards of smoking may be for naught as vaping has started a new generation of nicotine junkies that will be helplessly addicted and will ultimately graduate to smoking cancer sticks," said Sen.
While I was out of town for a film festival, the killer called me with a one-time-only offer to meet him and save Joyce, but I wasn't in LA to take advantage, and I had to stand by helplessly as time ran out.
Where the cameras stand out is in the everyday situations where you just want to get the shot, and don't want to have to worry about using "low light mode" or watch helplessly as the camera struggles to focus properly on your puppy's gambols.
And it paints a scene you can look forward to: getting blackout drunk at a New Year's Eve party with everyone from your hometown, making out with somebody you don't really know anymore, and helplessly following them into their bedroom as words fail you.
Personally, I'd have plumped for Martin Cruz Smith, who has demonstrated, since the first two sentences of " Gorky Park " (1981), that the English language lies at his command, whereas Patterson is helplessly at its mercy, as even the briefest browse of his corpus will confirm.
It's a disorienting, compelling sequence — like the operators of the plant, we don't know what has just happened, and we helplessly follow along as they blunder through the flaming wreckage on fruitless tasks, absorbing tremendous doses of radiation that will kill them within weeks.
It really is no wonder, then, that both political parties chose to bail out banks at the expense of workers in 2009 and why the recent House hearing for the Stop Wall Street Looting Act found lawmakers either breathlessly defending private equity or helplessly shrugging.
BB is part equipment, part character; it remains helplessly trapped in a sci-fi jar, where it both bonds with Death Stranding's lead character Sam, and also serves as a tool that alerts him to deadly, ghostly apparitions that are largely invisible to humans.
Not only does the transition happen just like you remember it from the movies, but through the app you can also trigger pre-programmed animations that include R2-D2 excitedly wobbling back and forth on his two feet, or falling over helplessly after getting shocked by Jawas.
Duff, with affected old Hollywood diction, plays Tate as a woebegone mother-to-be, helplessly awaiting husband Roman Polanski's return as she's tormented by nightmares of a man known only as "Charlie," who she thinks is out to get her, her unborn child, and her friends.
For instance, "War" (1993) recasts the myth of Zeus and Leda in a black, gray, and white composition wherein a black, fantastical swan-like bird of prey, whose wingspan contains the word "WAR," carries off a female nude whose lifeless body dangles helplessly from its talons.
After catching a rip-fast 27-yard pass over his shoulder from Miami QB Ryan Tannehill over double coverage, Landry turns and burns the hell out of a defender, only to leave yet another Browns player sprawled out, helplessly eating the dust of Landry's red-hot wheels.
But now we're supposed to believe that those same incompetents are going to magically turn into convention Machiavels, capable of running a secret-but-not-really-secret whip operation on behalf of Ryan or Rubio while Cruz and Trump just stand by helplessly and let it happen?
Ms. Colman and Mr. Paterson are at the top rank of British character actors, and Ms. Colman is especially good here as an artist who, through manipulation, arrogance and actual talent, has negotiated life in a way that Fleabag despises and wishes, helplessly, that she could emulate.
Mr. Moon spent most of the last year helplessly watching the Korean Peninsula edge toward a possible war, as the North test-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles and conducted its most powerful nuclear test, and Mr. Trump threatened to rain down "fire and fury" on North Korea.
Mr. Moon spent most of the past year helplessly watching the Korean Peninsula edge toward possible war as the North test-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles and conducted its most powerful nuclear test yet, while Mr. Trump threatened to rain down "fire and fury" on North Korea.
To scientists, however, he will be forever known for finding a relation between gravity — in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity — that bends the cosmos and determines its destiny and the atomic randomness that lives inside it, swept helplessly along in the river of time.
But unless and until that happens, millions and millions of Americans watch helplessly as the president cages children, dehumanizes immigrants, spurns other democracies, guts health care protections, uses his office to enrich himself and turns public life into a deranged phantasmagoria with his incontinent flood of lies.
Tossing in his rubber boat in the waters off Midway, our wounded Ensign Gay watched the two great Japanese carriers blasted into flame from stem to stern as their planes circled helplessly above them, unable to land on the blazing furnaces which had been their nests.
Aside from it being one of the best days of my life, something else I'll always recall about my daughter's birth will be standing there helplessly while my wife Lindsay masterfully employed those breathing techniques and we both gazed at the Today show on the television that Saturday.
In a matter of weeks, those few senators have watched helplessly as the investigation by House Democrats has lobbed a grenade into the middle of their campaigns, putting them on the defensive amid a torrent of damaging revelations about the president's conduct with no clear end in sight.
While the Fed isn't singularly responsible for policing market competition, it does have the power of the megaphone, and the implications of the research unveiled last week should signal a sea change across government: either tame the corporate giants, or watch helplessly as they eat everything not nailed down.
Stephens had built his own mythos—he had always clung to the idea that even though he wasn't the best in the world, nobody could afford to trade with him—and yet faced with this angry, shaken Jose Aldo, he seemed to be flailing helplessly in the breeze.
In Los Angeles, a city already shouldering an ignoble history of ethnic displacement, the current pinches of gentrification have been primarily felt by people of color in the lower-income communities surrounding downtown, where residents have watched helplessly as the landscape of their birthplaces have changed, seemingly overnight.
Now, not only do the other teams angling for a shot at Russ miss out on the rare chance to sign a player this good two years before his 30th birthday; they must also stand by and helplessly watch as the Thunder go from desperate sellers to hopeful buyers.
Benton's PowerPoint was quite something, but it's not nearly as intense as some of the intricate conspiracy theories currently populating the internet, which claim that nefarious forces are deliberately preventing us from knowing the truth of who our favorite celebrities are banging (or, more often, falling helplessly in love with).
In a "Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ" (1890-91), it is Gauguin himself who dominates the scene, a commandingly physical presence beside a crucified Christ who resembles a wan, helplessly weak if not jaundiced adjunct to the main event, a symbol to be used or exploited as the need arises.
They depend on donations for staples like food and clothing, watch helplessly as their children get bullied at school, and suffer overwhelming medical problems — often the result of torture and trauma — that go untreated for lack of benefits or because they don't know how to navigate the US health care system.
It's not the kind of movie where the character herself is in any real danger — the enemy is time, as we cut from her fighting half a dozen zombies at once with a shovel, back to Felix struggling to breathe, as a stricken Dave and other kids look on helplessly.
The novel felt like one damn thing after another, but with director Jennifer Yuh Nelson helplessly jamming all those elements into a 105-minute run time, the frantic rush from underdeveloped villain to underdeveloped villain starts to feel like a master class in how not to write a Hollywood script.
Oh, yes: The tear-jerkingly unfair sight of Brett Favre watching helplessly from the sidelines as a long kickoff return, two automatic-first-down defensive penalties and one actual first down set up the field goal that ended the beloved Ol' Gunslinger's last, best chance at a second Super Bowl ring.
We read Gaitskill and Bowles to witness their characters self-destruct — but in Core's stories what agonizes is the way she lets hers be, helplessly embedded in the present, wondering about what might be happening outside their own lives but unable to act upon that outer world in any significant way.
This lack of experience makes it all too easy for native-born Americans to conclude that just because you're helplessly trying to navigate a supermarket, you've been helpless your entire life, or because you don't have the language skills to express your opinion, you don't have any opinions to begin with.
A political movement that has already twice this century taken the presidency against the will of the American voting public and which holds total and undivided control of nearly half the states in this country remains, evidently, the underdog of American political life, helplessly buffeted by the winds of change.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Events in Iran and Iraq over the last week have been unsettling, even frightening, for the inhabitants and for many of us in the rest of the world who have been watching helplessly: assassinations, missile strikes in response, and the prospect of all-out war.
So, when President Donald Trump won the 2016 election, as all my friends in our solid blue Washington, DC, bubble were veering helplessly between catatonic depression, colossal rage and outright panic, I posted an invitation on Facebook asking anyone who voted for him to join me for dinner at my home.
But for now, pro-life groups are left flailing, helplessly, against the tide: Susan B Anthony List: It is incredibly disappointing that any GOP spending bill would contain continued funding for Planned Parenthood It's worth taking stock of just how far the agreement from is from what Trump initially demanded.
"My father has been publicly lynched in the media and my family, my young daughter, my young niece and nephew have had to stand helplessly by and watch the double standard or pretending to protect the rights of some but ignoring the rights of others," she said in a statement last year.
Motorsport Manager's extensive tutorial seemed intent on starting off by rubbing in how much I didn't actually know about the sport, as it tossed me almost immediately into a full race with a scripted rainstorm that forced me to watch helplessly as my two chosen drivers slipped ever closer to last place.
No one but Lanthimos could adhere so loyally to the classical model of the tragic, yet the result treads close to monotony, and even to a kind of sorrowful sadism—on the whole, I'd rather not watch children, numb below the waist, crawling helplessly downstairs or being hauled along by their hair.
Ingmar Bergman constructs a similar plight in "Persona" (1966), where a nurse chatters helplessly, as if filling a void, to her patient, who stays mute, but for Bergman the clash—the waves of speech beating against a rock—is psychological, whereas the old man and his niece, like their homeland, are under siege.
No matter what was a happening, whether I was uprooting my entire life while moving, or watching helplessly as a hurricane bore down on my home, or even if I just had a bad day, I could sit down with a bowl of ice cream, and unfailingly have a few minutes of bliss.
There have of course been far worse moments in American history: the presidents who watched helplessly as the storm over slavery broke into Civil War, FDR and the Japanese internment camps, Richard Nixon bombing Vietnamese civilians and prolonging the Vietnam war to help get himself reelected, and George W. Bush setting the Middle East aflame.
In the opening moments of the new trailer for the upcoming Dark Phoenix — the latest installment of the popular comic book film franchise — Lawrence's shapeshifting mutant character Mystique meets her untimely death, with the embattled Jean Grey (Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner) lashing out and killing her while the other X-Men watch helplessly.
There will be a cavalcade of Yinzers squeezing tree roots in an attempt to warg into Brian Dumoulin so they can attempt to alter the past only to stand helplessly and watch Fleury lie on the ice and mutter, "BACK DOOR, BACK DOOR, BACK DOOR," after Nikita Kucherov's tying goal late in Game 5.
Sports of The Times CLEVELAND — The game began with what sounded like an ax striking a tree as a Cubs leadoff batter hit a soaring home run to the deepest recesses of center field; it ended with a helplessly grinning Cubs third baseman scooping a slow-rolling bouncer and tossing it to first base.
But for an angler standing by a stream and casting out a line, the thought that rises helplessly to mind is that every species we lose, every habitat we compromise in the name of "human convenience," is one more piece of the American character and of our own souls inadvertently washed away into oblivion.
To those of you helplessly sucked into the delightful, addictive, life-upending vortex that is the greatest show of all time, here's some good (and bad) news: The actors who play Christopher Moltisanti and Bobby Baccalà are launching a podcast about The Sopranos, and they'll be breaking down the entire series episode by episode.
It was also the latest indignity in New York City's relationship with the state, in which the city, despite its outsize influence and presence, is often relegated to waiting helplessly for state legislators to act on everything from funding for its subways to oversight for its educational system — and now safety around its schools.
We were so lonely in the streets though all the small houses still had noses, mouths, eyes from which we might peer, as our fellow- citizens walk their dogs, pause helplessly as the dogs circle trees, tip their heads back for a long slow slug of water or tea, and never fear, never fear.
Hush's greatest strength is its depiction of Maddie as a helplessly naive character who gains self-reliance over the course of the film; she starts out so trusting that all her doors are unlocked, and at one point she casually leaves her sliding door open, even after she's gotten a strange vibe from her environment.
The story of American democracy isn't one of norms and transgressions, of order and disintegration, or a beckoning green light we swim helplessly toward The guardrails Frum describes — attention to national security and policy knowledge, equality and inclusion, loyalty to the nation — mean different things to different people, and they are all contested, moving targets.
As in the first days after the levees failed in New Orleans in 2005, the rest of the country is stuck watching helplessly as we see a catastrophe that has the potential to rival Katrina -- or possibly even exceed it, as Houston's population is several times what New Orleans' was in 2005 -- unfolding, slowly, over days.
James often felt like a one-man show — never more so than an the end of Game 1 of the finals when he watched helplessly as J.R. Smith dribbled out Cleveland's chances of winning — and it became clear that a change of scenery was attractive even after he had ended the city's long pro sports championship drought.
Having experienced an unprecedented ferocity of hurricane activity in Houston, and witnessing the same devastation in other cities, I can say it is time to get ahead of the game with a national action plan to upgrade urban and agricultural infrastructure in susceptible areas, or watch helplessly as these regions are decimated piecemeal by now predictable catastrophic weather events.
That, of course, would have been bad news for both Mr. Ackman, who would have perfected his loss in Valeant, and for Valeant, which would have to watch nearly helplessly as its largest shareholder sold millions of shares into the market, the consequence of which would most likely have been to drive Valeant's stock price down even further.
Afterward, as the streets run brown with the foul liquid pouring from the truck's sides, you can see the SUV's driver helplessly tap their brakes, unsure of what to do, knowing that no course of action will possibly undo the terrible string of circumstances that brought them to this street at this time, next to a festering poop bomb of a truck.
We can understand why Roman feels compelled to ejaculate onto his office window as he gazes out helplessly at the Lower Manhattan skyline, or why Kendall literally shits the bed at a New England blue blood compound after a night of hard partying, but we will never learn the names of the people who have to clean up after them.
He's warring with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, watching helplessly as special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion with Russia heats up, and coming under fire from even some of his most devoted followers for talking with Democrats about a deal to save undocumented immigrants brought into the US as children from being deported.
But that lends Sensi, otherwise quite a systematic game of diagonal passes and long-range blasts into the snug-like sweet-spot of crossbar meeting post, a feeling of frenetic drama and clumsy panic, as deflections from upright to helplessly prone center-back spread genuine fear through the defending player's ranks, and spark a flame of opportunity in their attacking counterpart.
It says she went back and forth, staring at the White House for a long period of time before making her move Tuesday at 10:50 PM. The Secret Service agent who was watching her lost sight for a second and the next thing he knew she had caught her shoelaces on an iron spire and dangled helplessly on the inside of the fence.
She said that "black men don't have that same set of ethos," using the example of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who portrayed his sister as helplessly dependent on welfare when in fact she had worked two jobs while Thomas was in law school and only began using welfare benefits when she stopped working to care for an elderly aunt recovering from a stroke.
But until the Mid-Week Pictorial of June 7, 1917, you might have had no idea what the final moments looked like before a torpedoed steamer, sinking by the bow, slipped under the waves; its screw and rudder raised helplessly high above the water, a big lifeboat dwarfed by the steamer's massive hull, and sailors clambering down ropes to shorten their drop into the waves.
Nonprofits on Facebook Get Hacked—Then They Really Need Help Louise Matsakis writes about the administrator of an animal shelter's Facebook page, who watches helplessly as her account gets repeatedly hacked and Facebook ignores her requests for help (until she tweeted at an executive who helped.) The larger issues are around fundraising fraud and the lack of customer support, even for accounts with more than 1 million followers.
Were you yourself female, you would be able to penetrate, as it were, the suffering of a woman who lacks any independent means of support, reduced to dependency on a man, bouncing helplessly from her superannuated stiff of a husband to her swashbuckling, military-industrial lover, and forced to renounce her child when she attempts to fulfill her deepest desires, desires which have been inscribed in her by her lifelong subordination.
The longer episode was a 2282-pitch battle between Yankees starter Michael Pineda and Salvador Perez, the Royals catcher who is also the most dangerous hitter in their lineup, with 11 home runs and 28 R.B.I. It was an extended tussle between batter and pitcher that was ultimately won by Pineda, who, after falling behind, 2-0, in the count could only watch helplessly as Perez fouled pitch after pitch.
A move that is made hundreds of times a night in the NHL turned comically disastrous for Klingberg, who appeared to clip the goal post with his skate, promptly eat shit, and, as he was falling, delivered a perfect tape-to-tape feed right on the stick of Preds centre Nick Bonino—who buried the empty-net goal and sealed the win for Nashville while Klingberg lay helplessly in a pile of his own shame.
But in practice this seems like an awful lot of unwieldy junk to deal with, especially considering Walmart is not exactly known for selling the kinds of things that would be really interesting to look at it in VR. On the other hand, this is probably the only way to shop at Walmart that looks even dumber to a third-party observer than helplessly wandering through its cavernous aisles looking for someone, anyone in a blue shirt.
That didn't stop Twitter from collectively crediting the coin toss for the Pats' third straight Super Bowl berth, fourth in five years, and fifth in eight: Mahomes had to watch helplessly from the sideline as his defense gave up its fifth touchdown of the game—just as the gunslinger he's been compared to, Brett Favre, had to watch his special teams and defense melt down in the 2009 NFC Championship game, which prompted the change to the current overtime format.
The episode also delivers multiple characters right back where they started: Bernard gets yet another hard reset, while Elsie is once again left unknowingly assisting a Bernard who's under Ford's control; Dolores encounters Maeve yet again, only to leave her to explore her own version of free will yet again; Maeve helplessly watches her daughter's kidnapping all over again while the Man in Black's quest stalls out, apparently all thanks to a phone call ex machina that everyone's favorite smarmy exec, Lee, could have made at any time during Maeve's trek across theme parks.
They were unutterably lovely, the aliens, when finally we knew them, when at last we understood they had lived and moved among us from the beginning in bodies the image of ours, though smoother, eyes wider, as if the world were a little darker for them, or more wondrous, and we loved them as wildly and deeply and helplessly as our first loves, our dreams, our lost ones, all at once, though we knew they were wilder and deeper than we were, and freer, and loving them only deepened our loneliness.

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