His batsmen let him down in their first innings, faring little better in the second, and his bowlers were impotent in Hampshire's second, which came to a belated end midway through the morning session yesterday after Liam Dawson secured a century.
"I don't think of artists as being impotent in that way," she said.
I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man.
But the truck owners complain that the government is impotent in the face of the Taliban.
MAT COLLISHAW In "The Writing of the Disaster," Maurice Blanchot claimed that language is impotent in the face of catastrophe.
I jib only at Bond's implicit suggestion that art is impotent in the face of violence and suffering.
Interfaith dialogue is impotent in this respect, since there is no foundation of trust upon which to build.
The Classic case, among myriads of others, refutes the contention that courts are impotent in connection with evasions of all "political" rights.
"He's playing someone who is impotent in the world, a guy who, when he walks down the street, the air doesn't move.
