Sentence examples for feeling of impotence from inspiring English sources
Not only do the machines represent the inner turmoil and the drive to destroy, but they also points toward the feeling of impotence Herbert feels at his inability to understand the world, to understand himself, and to control his actions.
"We only meant to fight our feeling of impotence.
But the greater similarity is the feeling of impotence that both crises prompt.
It then moves onto darker themes: unemployment, poverty, rubbish-strewn streets, drug abuse, violence, and Tunisians' feeling of impotence.
Anyone who has had plans ruined by a dead battery will know the particular feeling of impotence.
There is value in being reminded of that feeling of impotence, and of that old saying about eternal vigilance.
Most of the volunteers helping him in the rectory said they, too, were fighting back feelings of impotence as they went through their assigned tasks.
But while fluorescent jackets and Perspex goggles are annoying, they don't tend to induce off-the-scale levels of anxiety or deep-rooted feelings of impotence and frustration in me every time I see them.
The chaos, in the most orderly and prosperous of Latin American countries, has provoked feelings of impotence and despair and, in some cases, the anger of some of its citizens who, as I wrote Saturday, had relatively high expectations regarding their government's competence.
But Mr. Wilkinson's performance as the impassive Matt Fowler is most moving in its stillness, in which a docile man's feelings of impotence and his desire to do something to avenge his son and preserve his marriage starts deep within and manifests itself in an ever-growing gleam in his eyes.
