Even Hugo Young, in the left-wing Guardian, thought the changes would result in an "impotent" upper house.
He tried to speak but could only sputter and whinny in an impotent intellectual way.
Is there anything more frightening and at the same time more pathetic than someone in an impotent techno-rage?
The irksome sounds of his repetitive, fruitless jumping – woop, woop, woop – join the rough hiss of his "spin dash" engine revving, weep-weep-weep-weep, in an impotent sound collage.
But they failed to muster a single opportunity in an impotent attacking display and the single point means they remain ninth in the table.
With the second, I put up more of a fight – and by "fight", I mean "circling and circling, in an impotent attempt to tire her out".
With the second, I put up more of a fight and by "fight," I mean "circling and circling, in an impotent attempt to tire her out".
I've opened stories with an unintelligible line of Jane Austen; 9,000 placentas stewing in buckets; an impotent mouse; a phone call from a -80C freezer.
Reading "Manly Health," with its nested anxieties, I kept hearing the final lines of Mike Nichols's movie "Carnal Knowledge," in which an impotent divorcé, played by Jack Nicholson, hires a prostitute to recite a pep talk he's written.
With his ear cocked to sexual harmonics, Dan finds in Poe an impotent man who is possessed by the erotic and, unable to express his sexuality in bed, resorts to voyeurism, notably of what people do on the toilet.
