Sentence examples for unable to do things from inspiring English sources

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That, too, is the mark of an artist — as Robert Bresson said, the artist is someone who is unable to do things as others do them.

The loss of local control, however, often leaves former owners, who now only manage a business belonging to a distant corporation, unable to do things the way they used to.

Whatever we're like on the outside, on the inside we're just a seething mass of insecurities and we are simply unable to do things in the house very well.

The paradox was that the physiotherapy he received was so good that he did not look as physically unable to do things as someone like Rom – so if he didn't react, people assumed that he didn't understand.

Though most of us have not had legs blown off, or suffered from meningitis as children, we all have nevertheless some inner knowledge of how hard it is to be unable to do things that others can do, to feel vulnerable or ashamed or humiliated.

The director Robert Bresson said that artists are people who are simply unable to do things as others do; and artists in their youth are like cats who haven't swallowed canaries but are just hiding them behind their teeth they have answers but haven't learned the questions.

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8. Unable to gather your energy to do things (Had no will to do anything).

Do you find it hard to divorce yourself from all the past Depeche Mode stuff, or do you find yourself now free to do things you were unable to do before?

"We have heard from corporate executives who lament being unable to do certain things because of fair disclosure," he said, adding that "they never should have been doing those things" anyway.

"If you are unable to do some things in life compared to your siblings and friends, then please be at peace with yourself," advises Mahesh Kay.

My therapist says that's right — I was literally unable to do those things, and I know what he means: I'm always sabotaging myself.

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