Her comments on Bishop Eamon Casey, who as a parish priest fathered a child with local woman Annie Murphy, were also staggering, saying that Murphy, who was "sexually experienced" (as if that were a crime) targeted him with the intention of having a child and that Casey "was the powerless one once the bedroom door was shut".
Actually, an imbalance of power in a relationship may deliver more satisfaction for the powerless one than for the power-holder.
In oral arguments before a Supreme Court panel, the assistant attorney general said the number of "prominent politicians who are openly gay and lesbian" proves that homosexuals are not "politically powerless," one of the requirements of a suspect class; that caused one justice to quip, "If it were true political power," they would have already won the right to marry.
He was the powerless one once the bedroom door was shut.
I certainly keep writing about the same characters: the evil one, the misfit, the powerless one, the coward.
Mrs. Slater, the second-grade teacher, found the battery-powered microphone powerless one morning when she forgot to charge it overnight.
How powerless one feels over the quality of his sleep; how realistic his expectations; and whether he exaggerates the consequences of sleeping poorly — these have all been shown to correlate with the severity of an insomniac's complaints.
When they can't, I am less concerned with Satanism's alleged power to make Harvard unsafe for Catholics than the problem of big and powerful religions enforcing their privilege by stomping on small and powerless ones.
The most fearsome wrong hands may be those of a malevolent regime, be it one of men and women, using the information they have gathered to subjugate a powerless populace, or one of machines possessing superior artificial intelligence Skynet, a tyranny of the robots.
And I quickly discovered what researchers have now proven: powerful communicators put people off with their superhuman qualities; powerless ones draw others in with their imperfections and self-awareness.
