Sentence examples for social impotence from inspiring English sources

Is their hostility like that of South African men, who rape defenseless women to prove themselves despite relative social impotence?

People speak constantly of their social and political impotence.

In Paris he did a doctorate in social psychiatry, researching sexual impotence among north African migrants at a hospital.

Ruskin's narrative charts the fall of Venice from its medieval Eden, through the impiety and arrogance (as Ruskin saw it) of the Renaissance, to its modern condition of political impotence and social frivolity.

Born in Runcorn in 1970 and now based in Berlin, Collins is a master of revealing the harsh realities of repression and political impotence through social interaction, often using apparently anodyne acts.

"The government's ongoing failure to successfully investigate crimes against journalists and other social critics — whether by intention, impotence or incompetence — has created a climate of pervasive impunity," wrote Mike O'Connor, the investigator for the Committee to Protect Journalists.

"That embarrassing premature ejaculation, that humiliating attack of impotence, the wrong underpants, the social uncertainty of what and where and when and how and how often.

The only real innovation among the charter school advocates is how many ways they can avoid the hard truths about reforming schools and the impotence of education to overcome social inequity and injustice.

We learn that Dennis's social-worker mother is full of raging impotence at the new economics.

Ai's newer creations are more blatantly focussed on human-rights abuses, and on the potential (or impotence) of art as a force of social change.

The impotence and failure depicted in the novel's social and political reality also had an impact on the narration's form and content.