The child often feels helpless and powerless. It made me feel so helpless, hopeless and ill. Wilbur is so frightened that his attempts to call Chick result in helpless sputtering. He stood there helpless and trembling for his life. Their mockeries cause Pennywise to surprisingly regress physically and mentally into a helpless infant. People with depression often view themselves as unlovable, helpless, doomed or deficient. Levin is both horrified and profoundly moved by the sight of the tiny, helpless baby. His doors were open to all helpless and the poor. Social corruption and the oppression of the poor and helpless were prevalent. As he runs away, Hammond kneels helpless next to Warren's lifeless body. They are more than "passive beneficiaries of safety or helpless victims of danger". He even feared that he might again become a helpless invalid. It is a cowardly imputation on the helpless. He found the figure of a master who could do nothing for himself contemptibly helpless. Finally, Commodus killed a giraffe, which was considered to be a strange and helpless beast.