The world watched this symbolic violence in impotent horror.
He then watched in impotent horror as the rebels went to his 22-year-old brother's house next door.
Harris English creams a fairway wood into the heart of 5, then watches in impotent horror as the ball gathers speed as it rolls back off the front of the green.
The timid Zi is immediately smitten with Hong, but he goes along with Ping's plan to kidnap her and watches through a crack in the door, in impotent horror (or fascination; his face is hard to read), as his friend rapes her.
National Economic Council director Gary Cohn and transportation secretary Elaine Chao stood impotent, the horror slowly dawning as Donald Trump sabotaged an event that was supposed to be all about rebuilding America.
Along the way, Mr. Tesich injects some amusing digressions, much as he did in his last (and more concrete) play, "The Speed of Darkness". His main concerns include culture, which is presented as an impotent deterrent to modern horrors, and the Second Coming, which is revealed as futile.
When you and I who are not directly in the line of fire continually look at the horrors, feeling impotent at ending them and we wring our hands, shouting, we are doing nothing to stop it; we are letting those images control our thoughts, rather than seeing what we can do to change the culture in our sphere of influence, so as to begin creating a more harmonious world for generations of children.
The rumour is also meant to assist his mass seduction campaign by helping him identify women who are secretly eager for extramarital sex, because those women will react to a supposedly impotent man with tell-tale horror and disgust.
It's a stumbling, shambling affair, a rootless, pathetic, and ultimately impotent examination of the joys and horrors of hedonism as a way of life.
The idea of someone stretching my clitoris into the simulacrum of an impotent penis sends a little contraction of horror through me.
Picture the boy in his vulnerable, formative years, transfixed in horror at the sight of this giant limp organ, like some relic of an ancient religion, rendered literally impotent; and then older, right after he's lost his virginity, confronted by the memory of that drooping monstrosity.
