There are two different concerns about powerlessness that often get conflated.
Love is an admission of the power of powerlessness that cuts through the binary opposition of being and not being".
"That's how it starts, the fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness, that turns good men cruel".
At the same time, fear of the sommelier persists among consumers, born, perhaps, of the powerlessness that stems from a bewilderment with wine.
The film is dangerous mainly because it conveys the sense of powerlessness that is truly felt by many Americans during this highly unusual election year.
The danger, though, is that this will further increase the sense of powerlessness that her opponents feel and fuel the radicalisation that is taking place.
Who we used to be sometimes seems like a faint shadow of who we are now, but Gaiman helps us remember the wonder and terror and powerlessness that owned us as children.
There is little mention of the heightened sense of disaffection, marginalisation and powerlessness that was felt by many of Duggan's close friends, in the immediate aftermath of his killing.
The hard part is suppressing the doubts that so superficial a treatment -- psychological first aid -- can possibly expel the sense of powerlessness that comes from trying to live on two different levels, straining to be ordinary in extraordinary times.
Those lyrics evoke the rage that fuelled the inner-city riots of 2011, but also the anger mixed with powerlessness that grips us all from time to time as corporatism and managerial strategies make a mockery of democracy.
The effects -- "a paralyzing powerlessness" that "mixes corrosively with other adversities that deprive those in or near poverty of the ability to effect change" -- are visible each time Kara and her family appear in the book.
