The colossal cost to protect them, the sheer helplessness he felt in the the pitiless underwater marauders from the Pentagon - no, Zhang would never forget those days.

He felt the panic well up again, and that awful foreboding of sheer helplessness.

Seeing his wife undergoing such turmoil was worse than that sheer internal helplessness associated with the mad dance of his microbes.

First, the sheer helplessness that they evoked created awe, which could lead to a desire to comply . . . and then to love.

This was critical; among all the nightmare images of '61, scenes illuminated in her memory by lightning bolts of fear or pain, few were worse than the feeling of sheer helplessness that had struck her when their communication system had crashed.

The young officer felt something else besides fear, sheer helplessness.

A feeling of sheer helplessness assailed her; he could and would do what he wanted to her.

Byrd shook his head, not in negation, but in sheer helplessness.

The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.

His foolish behavior at Carryarrick had saved Fraser's life at Culloden, Now, that debt discharged, and Fraser in his power, Fraser's sheer helplessness as a prisoner made him completely safe.