Sentence examples for an impotent from inspiring English sources

I listen, awash in mortification but also, an impotent guilt.

Radclyffe is an impotent sadist but no matter.

Yet I feel an impotent homicidal urge in the matter of her lovers.

(A free kick, after all, is hardly an impotent penalty to offer for a lesser foul).

You see it as an impotent position, and it has been.

"Anything happen today?" he asks her with an impotent sarcasm worthy of Basil Fawlty berating Sybil.

He tried to speak but could only sputter and whinny in an impotent intellectual way.

The son (Robert Stack) is an impotent alcoholic who sleeps with a pistol under his pillow.

Georgia showed Russia redrawing the geopolitical map, with America an impotent spectator.

The O.A.U.'s problems throughout its 38 years left it an impotent group with lofty goals.

Yet while the real power lies elsewhere, it can feel an impotent gesture.