Sentence examples for moral impotence from inspiring English sources

Moral impotence is a muffled, crippled agony.

Welsh's theme was impotence, especially moral impotence.

As with other arguments from the explanatory impotence of moral facts, critics can reply either by arguing that moral facts do some explanatory work (e.g. Copp 2008 with reply by Street 2008) or by arguing that moral beliefs can be justified even if moral facts do not do any explanatory work (cf. Bergmann & Kain 2014).

Against that backdrop, the Danish jewellery grab, the French and the British vying with one another to see who can be the most inert and pathetic on the questions of Calais and Dunkirk, the myriad brutalities erected across Europe, make dispiriting sense; without a moral purpose, a competitive yet indifferent impotence pervades.

Indifferent and impassive before overblown moral showdowns, The Onion offers only contempt, impotence and blank depression.

Some years after Jameton's work was first published Judith Wilkinson [ 15] referred to what she called moral outrage, a type of ethical conflict in which the professional experiences a sense of impotence in the face of an immoral action performed by others.

The shock in the movie is a moral shock: the devastation of cities, the loss of lives, the enormity of the rampaging beasts, the fearsome sense of impotence before an existential threat to humankind.

Sheer impotence.