Sentence examples for impotent gesture from inspiring English sources
"Beseechingly gestures towards the impotent gesture of the poem.
Yet while the real power lies elsewhere, it can feel an impotent gesture.
"People before profit!" Ordinarily, we might look on this as a worthy but impotent gesture.
Taking charge of a city region, demonstrating that even with shrunken budgets there is a progressive alternative to Conservative rule, showing a practical aptitude for administration as distinct from impotent, protest gesture politics in Westminster – such are the opportunities that devolution deals offer a Labour party with imagination and courage.
Challenged on the point that firing highly inaccurate rockets from Gaza into Israel carried a huge cost in retaliation, one 30-year-old Palestinian who refused to give his name compared the attacks to the impotent yet defiant gesture of the Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who became a folk hero across the Arab world for throwing his shoes at President Bush.
But he said the proclamation would fail: it was nothing more than a gesture of "impotent rage" for which Confederates should show "contempt".
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.
These paintings 'queered' the drip paintings: suddenly the machismo of the Pollock gesture looked a little impotent, and the homosocial dimension of the old Abstract Expressionist circle like a circle-jerk (primal boys peeing on fire).
Faber, the author of acclaimed novels including The Crimson Petal and the White and Under the Skin, said the move was intended to be "a satirical gesture, just to let off some impotent steam".
