Kamlot and I were standing at one side, helpless witnesses of this holocaust of hate.

At first he would be forced to be a helpless witness to it.

Otherwise they were only going to be helpless witnesses to catastrophe.

Slightly distanced, we are forced into a more realistic contemporary position - helpless, pained witnesses to the past.

Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain.

Mother and son alike became the passive, helpless witnesses to the demise, fall and dissolution of a man who had given direction to them both.

On the left, like a helpless witness, a horse observes the scene.

Here, with guns in hand, they had boxed not only Elder but some helpless witnesses to his crimes, all unarmed.

They were but helpless witnesses to the amazing scene.

He fought a brief surge of horror at the prospect of being a helpless witness to her tears.