It is distressing, lasting for days or weeks, and it generally leaves the affected person permanently impotent.
But if qualia are causally impotent, how can a person know that she has an experience with a particular phenomenal character?
Nothing screams impotent weasel like a person who can't take criticism, a joke or an insult.
Too much power invested in one person, perhaps, with too few checks from an impotent London assembly, whose members, when they defied him, Johnson described as "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies"?
"We now regularly have to stand by in impotent silence, even though it may appear to us that an innocent person has been convicted," he wrote.
"We now have to stand by in impotent silence, even though it may appear to us that an innocent person has been convicted," Judge Alex Kozinski, a Reagan appointee, wrote in June in a Georgetown law review.
Medicine was impotent against plague (8 ); the only way to escape infection was to avoid contact with infected persons and contaminated objects.
Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions … they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
