Sentence examples for powerlessness at from inspiring English sources

He reflects power and powerlessness at the same time.

This decade is bowing out with "Men of a Certain Age," a TNT drama about three male friends exploring their powerlessness at midlife.

If "Instruction Manual" was meant to convey their relative powerlessness at work, Christine asked, did it make sense to include questions?

By supplanting the traditional role of choice in the novel with chance, by defining characters by their modes of survival rather than their personalities, he puts powerlessness at the center of his story.

The guilt that we can just walk away to a safe home or on rest and recuperation (R&R) while they remain faced with the same realities – sometimes for their entire lives – is as much part of the job as the empathy you feel, the powerlessness at not being able to do more for them.

While in real life "the youngest child can grow up with a sense of powerlessness at his inability to fix his parents' broken marriage or broken dreams and often feels completely out of control of his own life as adolescence takes its course", in the film Marty achieves redemption for both himself and his miserable clan.

One of the male participants who lived in a nursing home, but had small children at home, expressed powerlessness as a father.

And he seemed not at all concerned about highlighting the legislators' powerlessness as he made some jabs, apparently directed at Western democracies that have struggled at times to respond to the financial crisis.

"Victim feminism," claims Wolf, "urges women to identify with powerlessness, even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power they do possess".

In this situation "the irresistibility of [nature's] power certainly makes us, considered as natural beings, recognize our physical powerlessness, but at the same time it reveals a capacity for judging ourselves as independent of nature and a superiority over nature…whereby the humanity in our person remains undemeaned even though the human being must submit to that dominion" (§28, 261 262).

The RNs often express a lack of "voice" and a sense of powerlessness, but at the same time rarely describe an individual sense of professional responsibility.