Sentence examples for his powerlessness from inspiring English sources

His powerlessness itself was sweet.

Kyle's sense of shame at his powerlessness is excruciating.

The Depression has emasculated the cowboy, and his powerlessness has made him callow.

The breakdown in composure and the language difficulties compound his powerlessness.

Take Vinz's chunky knuckleduster: "It's an over-the-top subversion of his powerlessness".

His rapid sacking when Bremer arrived was a testimony to his powerlessness.

His desperate search for power is a reflection of his feeling of powerlessness in his life, of his fear of inadequacy and weakness.

If Anne Frank's continual appeal is rooted in every child's sense of his own powerlessness (along with the selfish hope that his papers will be published in redemptive, posthumous volumes that are hailed as classics and haunt his surviving family members), Shirley Temple movies satisfy a child's fantasies of tyranny, of being able to make grownups tap dance and marry each other on command.

In his utter powerlessness, he desperately strives to avoid additional cruelty by ingratiating himself with his captors and obeying their kinky demands.

The president, he said, had somehow managed to "throw a spotlight on his own powerlessness".

The destiny of Mikael and Marian ceaselessly haunted the author, weighed down by his own powerlessness to assume it.