At the same tune I was amazed at the apparent helplessness of the lizards.

Bewildered by John's apparent helplessness, they explained it away in terms of riotous living and debauchery with his wife.

A girl, stretched in apparent helplessness on a cheap cot, had taken Clyde an easy prisoner by the use of ammonia.

However, the concessions offered from a position of apparent helplessness defeated their very objective.

Ms. Evans played a woman who could swoon with apparent helplessness and then show her strength by resolutely picking herself up again.

One familiar scene for the Nets on Saturday night was their apparent helplessness against a superstar.

A smile widened as he came to realize Regis's apparent helplessness.

Again Deborah was relying on her apparent helplessness to allay any suspicion.

His one advantage lay in his apparent helplessness.

Only the same lonely role, the most difficult in his life: gloom, surrender, indecision, apparent helplessness, with self-imposed semistarvation.