Sentence examples for quite impotent from inspiring English sources
One can debate until one is blue in the face what the meaning of "non-existence" is, but while that may be an interesting philosophical question, it is really quite impotent, I would argue.
However, the arrests of members of the hacker group Lulzsec this week, and some other recent but less high-profile arrests, show that the authorities are not quite as impotent as many would have you believe.
And when it is in motion, the sound of shifting gears and engine braking becomes that of a storm, never quite formed, its forming ceaseless, thunder dry, impotent.
She impulsively travels out there - quite a quick journey, evidently - to the impotent dismay of various servants and submissive salaried flunkies.
Much of the pathos of the memoir comes from Sattouf's depiction of his father, a dreamer full of bluster, driven by impotent fury at the West; a secularist who can't quite free himself from superstition; a man who wants to give orders but whose lot is to follow them.
Quite often, those in power are only in post for a short time, and are often hamstrung and impotent as they try to keep their fragile coalitions together.
