Sentence examples for utterly impotent from inspiring English sources
Until Labour gets over its Tony Blair problem, it will remain out of power – unsullied perhaps, but utterly impotent.
This Faust seems utterly impotent, utterly powerless; Sokurov punningly deploys the German phrase: "Whoever has no hand can make no fist" – "Wer keine Hand hat, macht keine Faust".
It's also a cry of anguish, of anger that the inequities in American society rendered the Hollywood cinema, with its still-enforced codes of silence, nearly superfluous and utterly impotent.
In their worst performance since... well, two weeks ago, the Tigers were utterly impotent after half-time as they scored just one goal in an hour of play and the Demons piled on six in the tumbling rain.
The New York theatre has long felt ambivalent about hosting one visiting British behemoth after another (last year's closing on Broadway of Cats was greeted with relief rather than regret), not to mention utterly impotent in the face of the Disney machine, notwithstanding its respect for The Lion King 's visionary director, Julie Taymor.
Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular.
So much so that we may feel utterly powerless and impotent.
Though Pialat calls attention to the area's cultural and material deprivation and depicts the appalling shanties that endure in the shadows of ostensible progress, he looks at the cycle of life, from stunted youth to stultified labor to impotent retirement, with a total, irreparable, utterly personal grief.
The overall effect is utterly forlorn: car-as-penis-extension, but flaccid and impotent.
Utterly absorbed in producing his wordy histories (Frederick the Great ran to six volumes), possibly impotent, and certainly obsessed with shit, he was as far from a loving Victorian paterfamilias as it was possible to be.
