Sentence examples for absolute powerlessness from inspiring English sources

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Inequality, unemployment, and absolute powerlessness had become the dominant issues facing England's young.

And they underlie survival guilt, as Richard Williamson implies, when he writes (35):  the realization of "absolute powerlessness" in survival guilt "must have a devastating effect on one's confidence and heroic self-image".

It was infectious, but above all it was comforting — comforting during a time of absolute powerlessness: a powerlessness felt by all, but perhaps by no one more than the Palestinians of Gaza, something my father understood and, in his small ways, sought to treat.

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But if invisibility stands in for absolute power it is also the opposite: our governing metaphor for powerlessness.

Ball largely endorses this view; his focus, per his subtitle, is invisibility's "dangerous allure". But if invisibility stands in for absolute power it is also the opposite: our governing metaphor for powerlessness.

I felt powerlessness and how much I hate feeling powerless.

Utter powerlessness.

His powerlessness itself was sweet.

He faces Ohnmacht, powerlessness.

Powerlessness corrupts, too.

It's about powerlessness.

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