Unhelped

But at home they were daunting, unhelped by reviews implying that we've all memorized Czeslaw Milosz--ah, yes, "Unde Malum"--and that they should squat on the shelves just for "reference." ❋ Poetry Foundation (2011)

Sometimes this classification is unwitting and unhelped, sometimes those markers are deliberately sought out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thank goodness they didn't get their way and Clinton left office with higher approval ratings than their poster boy Reagan but they did scuttle heath care reform leaving millions of Americans the right to die unhelped by the state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clumsily staged and acted too was the dinner party scene with Dr. Melfi and her colleagues, unhelped by Peter Bogdonavich's limitations as a non-actor. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

VELSHI: The worst off -- the worst off of Americans remain unhelped by this situation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And so was it made plain that those Peoples must suffer and come unhelped and alone to their end; which was a sad and dreadful thought to any. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I mean that if I had uncovered my face by a sheer effort of will, unhelped by any revulsion of feeling, I should have done a thing much more worthy of mention. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the domestic side, it's clear that they also believe that it's better for ten deserving people to go unhelped than for one "undeserving" person to receive benefits to which they are not entitled. ❋ Kay Olson (2006)

You are aware that my father-once reckoned a Croesus of wealth — became bankrupt a short time previous to his death, and that my mother lived in destitution for some six months after him, unhelped by her aristocratical brothers, whom she had mortally offended by her union with Crimsworth, the — — shire manufacturer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Missed Flight: We aren't really affected by the new intelligences; they go their own way and leave us undisturbed and unhelped. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I can't find it in me to blame women who've just had a baby and are tired, emotional, insecure, and unhelped. ❋ Ailbhe (2006)

Now, results are in comparing different treatment regimens in patients who were left unhelped--and these new data will probably help Medicare, Medicaid and health insurers push for cheap generics in the coming years. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But some power compelled him, as it had compelled him to come downstairs, to make his stand here and now, alone and unhelped by any one, without prospect of reward. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There are a number of things al Qaeda did that I think it's going to be difficult in time for people to sustain saying they did completely alone and unhelped by anyone who was, you know, had some fake passports, whatever. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Logic is a machine, one can leave it to itself; unhelped it will force those present to exhaust the subject, the fool is as likely as the sage to speak the appropriate answer to any statement, and if an answer is forgotten somebody will go home miserable. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)