unhelpable

Most public men and all lawyers have been appealed to by victims of this sense of injustice -- the most unhelpable of afflictions in a society like ours.

Captain Brassbound's Conversion George Bernard Shaw 1903

If one half of the money that is spent trying to help unhelpable people was spent in helping the kind of families I refer to in the manner I describe, the results would be surprising.

London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882

That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable -- how do you who are familiar with it answer it?

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 1872

A cursed confusion indeed is the universe, if it be no creation, but the helpless unhelpable thing such men would have us believe it -- the hotbed mother of the children of an iron Necessity.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

A cursed confusion indeed is the universe, if it be no creation, but the helpless unhelpable thing such men would have us believe it -- the hotbed mother of the children of an iron Necessity.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

And yet for all of Solondz's mischief, we sense he likes his unhelpable characters, and that they maybe like each other.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

The question was loaded with expectations and a desire to help an unhelpable situation.

Miss Britt 2009

How awful for this boy to have to go through this ordeal, because the parents wanted to help the unhelpable.

UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports 2009

I have a hard time agreeing with helping people that prove unhelpable.

blog maverick 2008

But I wouldn’t think this a great idea if the so-called ‘easy’ cases were proving unhelpable …?

Moral Universes « Tales from the Reading Room 2009