| To do this, this system supplies the child with feelings of defenselessness and loss, as well as being able to emit some type of vocalization if this contact is lost. |
| He walked towards her slowly, his arms extended at his sides in a gesture of defenselessness. |
| As it was, the very defenselessness of her situation gave her, in my opinion, the right to expect from me even the absurdest sacrifices to the narrowest conventionalities. |
| Its bearers confirm that message by their own surprising poverty and defenselessness. |
| The loss of innocent life and national terror induced by our defenselessness has taken on a surreal quality that is far beyond my experience. |
| But if you want to effect a breach in that stolid edifice the human personality I think it helps to cultivate this Kierkegaardian sense of defenselessness. |
