Sentence examples for impotent that from inspiring English sources
Eager to enlist Carlyle in the ranks of what the Victorians called "independent women," Markus accepts a little too easily the rumors that Carlyle's husband was impotent, that she died a virgin.
Ernesto Sabato, the Argentine novelist, noted that it was profoundly tragic that one of Argentina's most creative sons would feel so "desperate and impotent" that he would end his own life.
By 1163 the Fāṭimid caliph had been shunted aside in a power struggle between the vizier and the chamberlain, who were themselves so impotent that they had to seek help from the Sunni and even from the Crusader powers of Syria and Palestine.
When the BP oil spill stained the White House, making the president seem so impotent that he had to make his first national address from the Oval Office, the first lady was playing with her mother and daughters in Los Angeles, staying at the Beverly Wilshire.
As minority leader of the Georgia State Senate in the 1970's, he was part of a legislative bloc so small and impotent that it was ignored, steamrolled and sometimes openly ridiculed by the Democrats who controlled the legislature as if by birthright.
"If art is ever given the keys to the city, it will be because it's been so watered down, rendered so impotent, that it's not worth fighting for".
"I don't think of artists as being impotent in that way," she said.
I'm embarrassed and I feel dejected and impotent on that account.
They quote a Ugandan judge as saying that "in most African countries, the legislature has, through intimidation, bribery and incompetence, been rendered impotent".If that study is scathing about democracy in the Commonwealth, the other one, "Common What?", is pretty frank about the club itself.
My neighbour looked me in the face and told me that it was only an impotent man that sells pawpaw; implying that because I did not have a child I did not know that pawpaw was a fruit for children, and men with children save pawpaws to give to their children.
"I feel impotent, and that impotence bothers me a lot," he said.
