Sentences with phrase «feeling impotent»

Feeling impotent in the face of a roaring, feathered T - Rex is impressive.

Overtime, I see that those thoughts just come from feeling impotent.

We meet corporation executives who feel impotent and superfluous but are too well paid to complain.

I feel impotent.

Addison finds a few leads and follows them linearly to a conclusion, whose moral seems to be that life really can be as cruelly random as it seems to teens who, like Addison, frequently feel impotent to effect change in the adult world.

RG: When people are confronted with an overwhelming problem, and they don't see an intellectually honest solution, that just makes them feel impotent, and that's a really terrible feeling to sit with.

Do you ever feel the need to strengthen your boundaries, perfect your filters and regain balance more quickly when you brush against somebody's negativity, feel under attack or feel impotent in the face of violence and disaster in the news or at home?

Not exact matches

«The paralysis you feel right now — the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen — isn't real,» Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said in the statement.

Feeling psychologically impotent, they lack a sense of self - worth.

When I'm having them they make me feel strong, but all I'm doing is reinforcing my impotent self belief.

The impotent will takes revenge on those who do not feel a similar wrath and ill - temper, but who by necessity are also sufferers — i.e., on creative, innocent, but necessarily finite wills to power.

It is not only the Ideas of pure Reason, as Kant styled them, that have this power of making us vitally feel presences that we are impotent articulately to describe.

«Someone actually accomplished something whereas I felt a bit impotent,» Crothers said.

To see if a bruised ego can cause aggression, Fast and his colleague Serena Chen manipulated people's sense of power and self - worth by asking them to write about occasions when they felt either empowered or impotent and then either competent or incompetent.

To see if a bruised ego can actually cause aggression, the researchers manipulated people's sense of power and self - worth by asking them to write about occasions when they felt either empowered or impotent and then either competent or incompetent.

And whilst it does feel slightly impotent, actually it's a trained professional response.

Though the weapons are supposed to be more balanced than in the first, they invariably end up feeling rather impotent and bland, and the weapons that most teams scramble over each other to get at are the sword and the rocket launcher, leaving those unequipped or unwilling to use them with no truly effective countermeasure (ie.