Sentence examples for was rendered powerless from inspiring English sources

Instead, Mark McGwire got into the game but was rendered powerless, as though someone had ripped off Superman's cape.

The torture he suffered has left him withdrawn and ashamed, because he was rendered powerless and at the mercy of his tormentors.

Weston Hurt was a strong Emperor and Amy Wallace-Styles brought a deep mezzo-soprano timbre and thoughtful phrasing to Death, who was rendered powerless by the Nightingale's song.

The nursemaid, who was within the room as well, was rendered powerless by a spell and could only watch as the fairy took the infant on her knee and sang him a lullaby.

David fought Goliath, Ulysses escaped the one-eyed Polyphemus, and Gulliver was rendered powerless by the minute Lilliputians.

Any immediate distractions were rendered powerless.

"He's just been rendered powerless.

Now, when confronted with a true threat, we have been rendered powerless.

Because through representing pressure – in all of its different forms- as a risk to health – young people are rendered powerless and incapable of exercising agency.

This left Dave and me with a troubling question: what can we do when we are rendered powerless by normal political processes?

Watching those spectacles, I wondered why, if whiteness was supposed to be rendered powerless on a black-owned stage, it was still dictating the action.