Russia is a helpless giant, and life for its people gets worse every day.

This does not necessarily make the country a pitiful, helpless giant.

The image of Microsoft as a crippled and helpless giant is increasingly penetrating the mainstream media.

Once more they hoisted the helpless giant up on his feet.

There must be some way to help these poor helpless giants run their business and not sabotage the season.

If he did not, he said, America would be "a pitiful, helpless giant."

"We in America see ourselves as a helpless giant, and we are not."

A former occupant of this office had once called the nation a "pitiful, helpless giant."

Then, to use a phrase made famous in another context, came the time of the pitiful, helpless giants.

Now we see popular movements everywhere turning governments into pitiful, helpless giants.