Sentence examples for completely impotent from inspiring English sources

It made him completely impotent.

"Is it that our theatre feels completely impotent when it's relating to anything political?

But it was enraging to be in that situation, and to be completely impotent to do anything to help.

And we appear to be completely impotent to rein in a world population growth that is now about seven billion souls, each of whom will "need" more power.

"We're completely impotent," said Zynthia Cazares, 30, an American citizen who was among those abducted and whose husband, brother and father are still missing.

"It's a clear strategy of the Maduro government to render the Assembly completely impotent," said Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington research group.

The hero, Berenger, is alternately frightened, defiant, desperate, frustrated, impotent, self-loathing, envious and ultimately completely unhinged by the "epidemic" in a way that is immediately recognisable to us.

This intoxicating miasma of filth has filled Tanya with such impotent sadness that she's fled the square completely.

The culprits feeding the latter destructive (and sick) motivation are caused by the marriage of anger (born of emptiness, feeling completely "less than," and doing all one can to cover such impotent rage with charm and denial) and envy (the feeling that another has no right to joys and accomplishments as much as or more than your own).

The current conflict has now completely erased the rule of law, leaving the UN and international community looking confused and impotent.

Yet such self-discipline (the adoption of "filtering strategies", as Palfrey and Gasser put it) doesn't seem to have occurred to Carr: in front of a computer screen, we are for him impotent and without volition, so the only options are to drown in cyberbabble or to "disconnect" completely.