Sentences with phrase «impotent attempts»

As if to further frustrate our expectation of meaning, independent agencies within them make impotent attempts at communication.

Lo, here we have again the notion that sin is merely a negation to which one can acquire no title, as one can acquire no title to stolen property, a negation, an impotent attempt to give itself consistency, which nevertheless, suffering as it does from the torture of impotence in the defiance of despair, it is not able to do.

His impotent attempt to gain sympathy by claiming he was upset by an anti-Semitic comment which was obviously an attempt at humor is a new low even for him.

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This set tongues to clucking, but all that's actually happened since then is an attempt by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's otherwise impotent Joint Commission on Public Ethics to mug the First Amendment in the name of regulating lobbying.

Any attempt to categorize why women deserve to be leaders based on specific character traits is doomed to find itself impotent, bogged down in stuttering stereotypes.