Sentence examples for his impotence from inspiring English sources

The catalog describes how contemporary accounts of Asaf, a devout Indian Shiite painted by Zoffany, were "typically laden with Orientalist tropes" and stressed "his impotence, homosexuality, self-indulgence, corpulence, addiction to gaming, undiscriminating aesthetic taste, and legendary profligacy".

He felt impotent, and amused by his impotence, in this emergency.

His impotence is being managed.

For his impotence..

In the end, General Agus ended up with nothing and Mr Wahid revealed his impotence.

Finally, lampooned by his countrymen for his impotence, he was spurred into action.

"NUTS!" also makes you wish, against your better judgment, that his impotence-curing transplants, which actually left scores of men maimed and dying, or the "Incan" skin cream he claimed could improve vision, did indeed work.

Ayatollah Khamenei's threats of violence against his own people illustrate his political impotence; Iranian reaction, or lack thereof, to those desperate threats attests to his irrelevance.

Warren Buffett, the famed investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, offered this view of the problem — and his own impotence in solving it — in his 2006 letter to shareholders: "Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance...

In Kafka's most important attempt at autobiography, "Brief an den Vater" (written 1919; "Letter to Father"), a letter that never reached the addressee, Kafka attributed his failure to live to cut loose from parental ties and establish himself in marriage and fatherhood as well as his escape into literature, to the prohibitive father figure, which instilled in him the sense of his own impotence.

But mostly, Trump's desperate scratching at his phone revealed a chief executive who has been historically inept in his first year, has no idea how to right the ship, and is increasingly frustrated by his own impotence.