Sentence examples for impotent frustration from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile his compatriot McIlroy misses a long rake for birdie, then starts flapping his arms about in impotent frustration.

The World Cup – which is about great stories as much as great football – is so much richer when a team leaves the rest of the football world raging with impotent frustration.

Sprinting to meet a high cross launched into the Vasco area, the great man leapt into the air and... watched in impotent frustration as a defender beat him to the ball and planted it into his own net.

Amid the carnage he left behind, Shilton could be seen waving his hands in the air in despair, while our old pal Fenwick was right up in the referee's grille, tinkling his pinkies in an arch mime, the pair a picture of impotent frustration.

When people are experiencing hardships due to factors beyond their control (e.g. the weather, disease, a corrupt economic system screwing over whole countries etc) it is inevitable that they will find something or someone to bear the brunt of their impotent frustrations.

But amid all the pageantry and paparazzi, the impotent director's frustration mounts.

That the political system seems so impotent only deepens their frustration and their insistence on results.

What that entails is Rooney being accommodated in that area just behind Owen from where he can dictate the debate with the opposition - decidedly not on the flanks, where Sven Goran Eriksson has deployed him and where he can be as impotent, to the point of frustration, as Parliamentary back-benchers.

That impulse can motivate you to do something really special for your guests (perfectly turkey-shaped slices of cranberry sauce for an unexpected garnish), but it can also send you down the path of frustration (scraps of impotent pie dough flung around the kitchen).

Capello rose to his feet once or twice before the interval to make a point to his players, something he eschewed during the match against Hungary, when he seemed to be trying to prove that his modus operandi in the technical area is not restricted to an opera buffa of impotent bellowing and wild gestures of frustration.

The caretaker government is perceived as impotent by the Iraqi people, whose frustrations have mounted over electricity shortages during the hot summer and a political class that has produced little evident progress from months of backroom negotiations.