Sentence examples for powerless one from inspiring English sources

He was the powerless one once the bedroom door was shut.

I certainly keep writing about the same characters: the evil one, the misfit, the powerless one, the coward.

Mr. Giordano, who has spent the last two weeks behind bars in a location the federal authorities will not disclose, will officially remain mayor, although a powerless one.

Actually, an imbalance of power in a relationship may deliver more satisfaction for the powerless one than for the power-holder.

Mrs. Slater, the second-grade teacher, found the battery-powered microphone powerless one morning when she forgot to charge it overnight.

How powerless one feels over the quality of his sleep; how realistic his expectations; and whether he exaggerates the consequences of sleeping poorly — these have all been shown to correlate with the severity of an insomniac's complaints.

When they can't, I am less concerned with Satanism's alleged power to make Harvard unsafe for Catholics than the problem of big and powerful religions enforcing their privilege by stomping on small and powerless ones.

And I quickly discovered what researchers have now proven: powerful communicators put people off with their superhuman qualities; powerless ones draw others in with their imperfections and self-awareness.

Vaclav Havel calls this 'The Power of the Powerless.' One spark, one massive fire".

As Lloyd puts it: "It's profoundly bleak on so many levels – the failure of idealism, the powerless of one's domestic world to impact on the public world".

"It was the St Valentine's day issue and Spiegelman was making his statement about the Crown Heights riots and all the depressing shrillness that these powerless groups unleash on one another.