Sentence examples for impotent silence from inspiring English sources
In breathless impotent silence we listened.
"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.
What does it means when the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church dares to accuse the church of an "impotent silence," suggesting that the church and its leaders suffer not only from a "lust for power" but from what he calls "spiritual Alzheimer's," which essentially means that the church has forgotten what it was here to do in the first place?
Once the front door to their building had slammed shut, Mrs. Bardakçı retrieved a broom and pan from the kitchen and swept up the aftermath of her husband's impotent rage in silence.
The outraged Englishman's usual weaponry – glares and outraged silence – proved impotent.
Democrat's fears of being called anti-war, un-American, unpatriotic have kept them silenced and impotent; so much so that the only one brave enough to say what needs to be said about the war is now the head of the party that started it.
It's also a cry of anguish, of anger that the inequities in American society rendered the Hollywood cinema, with its still-enforced codes of silence, nearly superfluous and utterly impotent.
Suddenly I envy him: he is an angel man with a pure, clean soul, and his mind and his weekends are not corrupted by a points-game played by men in silence, a strange super-strata game on top of the actual game of football, an impotent form of gambling.
