Sentence examples for incapable of action from inspiring English sources
He seems full of longing, just incapable of action.
He's an avatar of the Western slacker: overeducated, bored, plagued with doubts, and incapable of action.
The passengers on the starship Axiom have become lazy, passive, obese and incapable of action or unassisted movement due to their pampered existence.
His Lincoln is aware that his strength is ebbing; he is on the point of ossifying into a legend incapable of action.
The nonlinear characteristics and time-varying conditions of modern power system make the classic linear control method incapable of action, meanwhile the existing nonlinear control methods and the intelligent control technology cannot obtain satisfactory control effect.
Why was the government so incapable of action?
Not that U.P.S. is incapable of quick action.
The two-step begins with a Congress that is hamstrung and incapable of effective action.
In a broader context, Carneades, one of the heads of the Platonic Academy (flourished 2nd century bc), was attacked by his fellow Greeks for advocating an intellectual Skepticism that, they argued, rendered man incapable of any action whatsoever.
The pollster Patrick Caddell filled volumes of memos and hours of conversation with his views: that after Vietnam and Watergate Americans had become inward-looking, obsessed with consumption, fragmented, incapable of collective action and suffering a "crisis of confidence".
"I emphasized with the Iranians that they should not just assume that because the Americans were bogged down in Iraq they were incapable of taking action against Iran; I said that they were entirely capable of it".
