Sentence examples for to powerlessness from inspiring English sources

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to powerlessness

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The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.

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She says: "Fat is a way of saying 'no' to powerlessness and denial".

Worst of all they are a sop to those who think censorship is the answer to powerlessness.

And by turning from his cast of terrestrial drones to the aerial drones silently monitoring their progress, he signals to powerlessness on a global scale.

In banning such items as funeral scarves and elaborate mourning dress, the colonists seem to have been admitting to powerlessness, as if their desire for British goods were itself the instrument of their subjugation.

For while "Being Harold Pinter" would seem to confirm the worst conjectures of its subject's late-career, expressly political dramas — all parables of state-sanctioned crimes against humanity — it is also a testament to the power of a single playwright to inspire, illuminate and give articulate voice to powerlessness.

He said visitors gazing at them experienced a range of emotions, from memories of youth to powerlessness.

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Frank stated that all psychotherapies seek to change despair to hope, fear to courage, powerlessness to mastery, and demoralizing meanings to favorable ones.

Children in a family environment full of conflict have increased psychological burdens and chronic melancholia due to their powerlessness to change the situation [ 36].

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Fifty Shades is a masochistic fantasy without the mess, a chance to playact at powerlessness, with very little actual pain.

But the problem is in the pictures themselves, not the way they are exhibited: in their focus on the powerless, reduced to their powerlessness.

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