Sentence examples for she is powerless from inspiring English sources

She is powerless, in Hunter's word "lost".

She is separate, yes; she has succeeded; but she is powerless to console herself.

Even when Corinne, in her devotion to Michael, lets him punish their daughter for being a brute's victim, you understand that she is powerless to confront him.

Ms. Graynor's performance suggests that this barbed variation on the Britney Spears-era nymphet feels trapped in a predetermined future she knows she is powerless to escape.

But though Noah prides herself on her ability to detect animal defects, she is powerless to explain the progressive paralysis afflicting her husband.

As her father waits for her to say her line in an am-dram production, it occurs to Tess that if she is powerless to change most aspects of her life, she does have control over her speech.

Without influence either in Delhi or among the Tamils, she was powerless to sway events.

She had already paid more than $40,000 on it, but now she was powerless to prevent it from being repossessed.

Instead, we argued frequently over what she saw as something she was powerless to change, and I saw as a correctable weakness in her character.

Samantha Stosur admits she was powerless to stop grasscourt juggernaut Sabine Lisicki from adding to her Wimbledon woes with yet another premature exit from the tennis showpiece.

Justice Goodman noted she was "powerless to impose" a speedy release for Mr. South, but ordered a new parole hearing "forthwith".