But the G-20 process is heading toward global impotence because the Europeans are dismissing this approach.
Various motivations have been proposed to explain Orgon's willful blindness toward Tartuffe, including impotence, fear of encroaching mortality and even latent homosexuality.
One way of looking at Rivette's "Out 1" is as a cinematic experiment in escape from cinephilia, from obsessive moviegoing and movie-referentiality. Here, Rivette breaks out of the narrative and visual forms of Hollywood movies, and what results is a thirteen-hour near-formlessness of exhilarating freedom that veers toward madness, breakdown, and impotence).
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.
That the commission has finally set a date for its first public forum since scandal erupted within the department last year is a good first step toward reversing years of institutionalized impotence.
He shuffles toward death through Xanadu's darkened galleries, his impotence mocked by the statuary he has spent a lifetime lifting from the palaces of Europe.
We talked to the author of a new book on the epidemic of impotence in China and look at how people's attitudes toward sexuality are changing in the country.
It seems that Manichaeanism — bad god vs. good god — is the natural religion of mankind and that all faiths bend toward the Devil, to make sense of God's furious impotence.
While the five permanent Security Council members' agreement to require Syria to give up its chemical weapons will surely be lauded as an important step toward conflict resolution, it is but another demonstration of international impotence.
It seems that Manichaeanism bad god vs. good god is the natural religion of mankind and that all faiths bend toward the Devil, to make sense of God's furious impotence.
