Sentence examples for powerlessness with from inspiring English sources

Fifty Shades is a masochistic fantasy without the mess, a chance to playact at powerlessness, with very little actual pain.

Josh's sense of powerlessness with regards to the Colton situation and Ali's increasing preoccupation with outsiderdom and social injustice both seem to be indirect motivating factors for their respective relationships.

Like the Taliban and the guerrillas in Vietnam, these groups are able to fight, run, and disappear, which reinforces an illusion of American powerlessness, with no end in sight.

For Matt and many others, those little blue pills call help to "replace this feeling of powerlessness with a sense of control".

Initial qualitative investigations identified a strong sense of powerlessness, with participants feeling a lack of control over their oral health and health care decisions, at both the individual and community level [ 8].

These nine cases were qualitatively different from other cases with chief complaints of social powerlessness associated with conditioned distrust of dentists and their negative behaviors.

This is in contrast to a study of women prisoners which found that women with longer sentences remaining experienced greater levels of powerlessness compared with women who had shorter time left to their sentences (Larson & Nelson, 1984).

If Anne Frank's continual appeal is rooted in every child's sense of his own powerlessness (along with the selfish hope that his papers will be published in redemptive, posthumous volumes that are hailed as classics and haunt his surviving family members), Shirley Temple movies satisfy a child's fantasies of tyranny, of being able to make grownups tap dance and marry each other on command.

For those watching in the grandstands, eyes on the big screens, binoculars in hand, powerlessness mixes with stomach-turning anxiety.

Moreover, family members describe feelings of frustration and powerlessness associated with their awareness of the disease prognosis [ 8].

The sense of powerlessness increases with explicit and implicit expectations from others that the pain should be eliminated.