The Government need not sit helpless, watching the economy slide.

I'm a happy man, going to battle again after sitting helpless on the sidelines for thirty years.

I just couldn't endure sitting idle and helpless at home another hour.

His mother sat helpless among the waves, as torn up inside as the country she had just left.

So long as Annie wept for the doll he sat helpless with misery.

I sat helpless and unhappy, staring into the fire.

But how long could he sit helpless and watch an- other person being brutalized to satisfy his own stubborn pride?

Her look focused on Flandry, who sat helpless and gaping.

I sat helpless beside him on the lonely, quietly rocking deck.

He sat helpless at his board, no guns that would bear on the threat.