The anathemas heaped on Israel/America may be genuinely felt, but, beneath them, lies another, more significant emotion: self-disgust, a profound exasperation with Arab impotence in the face of a historic foe, and above all with regimes which are the chief expression of it.
This tendency to frame our calamity from the perspective of future historians doesn't so much reveal the profound importance of recent developments – Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, etc – as it does our impotence in relation to them.
In its portrait of Shakespeare wrestling with his incapacity for meaningful action, it raised profound questions about the political impotence of even the greatest artist.
Alongside the chronicles of regional security and Jewish tradition, it may have been a profound and bewildering sense of impotence — that Israel, with its mighty military, its legendary Mossad and its resourceful Shin Bet, is forced to stoop before its enemies — that led the masses into the streets to express their rage at the government and to demand that they bring Shalit home.
Hughes has a measure of sympathy for his characters, but his clinical and yet satirical instinct takes over and asserts itself, in a mixture of near-bitterness and humor that speaks perhaps to a profound sense of loneliness, isolation, and possible impotence on his part.
These two remarks evoked some of the profound mistrust of Washington in Europe and many other places, and the sense of impotence against American might that was conjured up by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the campaign against terrorism.
A1 Negative View of U.S. Comments made during a lunch at the World Economic Forum evoked some of the profound mistrust of Washington in Europe and many other places, and the sense of impotence against American might conjured up by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and by the campaign against terrorism.
"The Minervans discovered impotence".
