Sentence examples for powerless play from inspiring English sources

Ten penalties -- usually at the very worst times -- four turnovers, atrocious special-teams play and equally powerless play from both the offense and the defense left the Giants behind by three touchdowns at halftime.

The game used to deserve its image problem, but the restrictive braces of two-runs-an-over tedium and powerless play have long since been shed with the advent of ICC involvement, improved athleticism and access to top-class facilities.

Against the Jets, the powerless power play did not matter — again.

The Devils do not have to answer questions about a powerless power play any more.

They feel safe watching a supposedly powerless man playing an even more powerless thing.

The youngest child, over-emphatically powerless, is played by a brown paper puppet.

Although she will no longer be Mr. Fox's spokeswoman, few experts said she would fade into the inconspicuous and powerless roles played by previous Mexican first ladies.

Havel became an advocate of nonviolence (and lifelong fan of rock music), writing a profound essay, "The Power of the Powerless," which played a major role in catalyzing a nonviolent moral revolution, largely invisible to the West, that reached beyond Czechoslovakia to inspire leaders of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and many in Russia.

That, arguably, is what Abi Morgan's script for Phyllida Lloyd's 2011 film The Iron Lady did, by framing the drama from the perspective of a powerless elderly woman, played by Meryl Streep, struggling with dementia in 2008 and looking back on her years as PM.

Ever since I did purchase it, I have been powerless to stop playing it.

Mr. Pine finally gets to speak in Mr. LaBute's "Lovely Head" and to demonstrate the power an actor can find in playing powerless.