Sentence examples for sort of powerless from inspiring English sources
"We felt sort of powerless," he said, "and concluded that if they are living in North Korea, at least one day we should be able to see them alive.
"They was becoming Muslim in front of the prison officers - and they [the officers] felt sort of powerless.
"We're slowly learning that science is actually sort of powerless to fix the things that have already gone wrong.
We're constantly creating a level of our existence, and sort of powerless at the same time to live at the mercy of these urges.
But [because of] the lack of a public program or the right insurance policy I was sort of powerless to help them with that request," he told me from his Calgary home.
He continued: "I'm kind of powerless.
I wanted to sort of take words that the powerless would use to describe power, and really take the power away from those words – from both sides, black and white.
Sometimes I got the feeling she sort of knew this about herself but was powerless to do anything about it.
Corbyn represents something altogether woollier, a sort of universal university campus, where a benign but powerless leader promises the earth.
It's brought out the cold-blooded, dead-eyed killer within: I can spot an enemy life form at 50 paces, and it tends to be powerless against my instruments of destruction (sort of hooked scissor things).
"These are people who are the losers in life," Mr. McCrary said, "who feel powerless and are attempting to exert some sort of twisted power and control over others".
