Sentences with phrase «impotent in»

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?

We need a new image of the self to counteract the Consumer Self of hyper - individualism, which, because the individual alone is impotent in a mass society, easily falls prey to the tribal loyalties.

Neither do I. Art is often impotent in the face of important issues.

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

Matthew Burns at Magical Wasteland does not review Kane and Lynch, revealing instead: «The only reason I played it all the way through recently is because someone once told me he thought the anger and annoyance that this game evokes in you, the player, was a respectable achievement because that's, like, the whole point of the story — that these men are angry and annoyed and ultimately impotent in the face of the world even though they kill a lot of people.»

Peeta serves this function, while her mother and sister remain impotent in the peripheries.

We need to rise out of the victim behavior that is ripping the fabric of society and leaving people impotent in their ability to see how they can enact change on earth.

A variation in the speed of light could also solve the horizon problem — but this too is impotent in the face of the question «why?»

«A variation in the speed of light could solve the problem, but this too is impotent in the face of the question «why?

Now those same governments are impotent in the face of the markets and a failed currency system based on aspirations about human behaviour rather than its reality.

Impotent in 2014 and 2016 defeats to Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid.

With Wilfried Zaha injured, Crystal Palace have looked impotent in attack.

As it played out, Madrid's starting lineup was impotent in attack at the Etihad, and the replacements for James all struggled.

Roberto Soldado has been rather impotent in front of goal during his Tottenham Hotspur career, scoring just six goals in 29 Premier League matches.

Since in the humanist view a man's life is entirely restricted to his consciousness of living on this planet, and since God is totally denied, a conscientious humanist renders himself impotent in many crucial situations.

John gives us a God who does not fit neatly into the comfortable theodicies of our postmodern sensibility: the god of process or openness theology, a god who means well, perhaps, but who, at the end of the day, is impotent in the face of radical evil.

As Bousset comments on 5:17: «The will of man is impotent in the grim conflict with these supernatural powers.»

That condition or state or situation in which we are not realizing our subjective aim and find ourselves impotent in the face of the requirements which it makes upon us may be summed up simply by saying that although we are made to become men, we do not actually get very far along the path, knowing ourselves to be both incompetent and impotent, however grand may be our projects and however optimistic may be our hopes.

Nor is he impotent in a church which doesn't have a vision statement and a list of goals.

God isn't impotent in the prison without me.

Yet while old moral codes may serve the private interests of some, they are impotent in the face of great public moral questions.

But their humane creed was impotent in conflict with the narrow doctrine of race.

God's work of love in history requires a reconception of its meaning, the discovery of new forms of its expression, and the transformation of those images of love which have become stereotyped and impotent in this epoch.

Not exact matches

Market transactions today are effectively anonymous and depersonalized, in a way that makes biases of various kinds effectively impotent.

It concluded that Pfizer knew and did not properly disclose that sildenafil is the only compound in Viagra, out of several listed compounds, that induces penile erection in impotent males.

«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.

Even though we know that the Mormon's who do this are impotent, one still naturally recoils at one's dead relatives being dragged in to being a part of a sacrilegious ceremony.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

That is, observers and call - ins on broadcast material participated without really being present and had the illusion of social interaction while remaining alone and, in any true political sense, impotent.

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

Unlike in the cultic churches, where people who step out of line with the leader's vision and dare to tell the truth are destroyed — or «thrown under the bus in driscollspeak — here, they are impotent, they try to shame, impugn, backhandedly discredit, all while appearing above it all, and yet, they are paper dragons.

I've noticed that humor is a very effective weapon in rendering logic impotent.

There is a kind of thinking in which ideas are impotent, a mere intellectual exercise.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

More likely, angry Muslims will temporarily back off to seethe in impotent rage until an opportune time for vengeance.

In essence Mr. Baden is telling us that Yahew is an impotent deity who capriously destroyed all of his «creation» for no purpose whatsoever.

Political opponents will cheer, political allies will criticize your impotent promises of «pie in the sky bye and bye.»

And the promise of the arrival of God's reign of empowering love all comes crashing down, so it would appear, in Jesus» ignominious and seemingly impotent fate.

In the eyes of the hotshot cadet generation, the impotent professoriate and the authoritarian presidents and trustees only made manifest that it must have been the church's domination that had deadened their colleges.

, or working hard to justify your continued belief in some imaginary but obviously impotent being, why not get to work trying to make the world a better place in some way?

In that world of honor and shaming, the «superior» has been rendered impotent to instill shame in a subordinatIn that world of honor and shaming, the «superior» has been rendered impotent to instill shame in a subordinatin a subordinate.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioIn our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

Be that as it may, the crippled man found nothing in his religious tradition to cure him until Jesus came along and restored strength and action to his impotent limbs.

We need to ask this question about married women who are abused by their husbands, about single persons who are not in position to marry, about those who have been divorced, about those heterosexuals who have no access to members of the opposite sex, about men who are impotent.

There is more proof that the empty colander in my kitchen is testament to the Risen Spaghetti Monster then the tomb is of your immoral, impotent godling.

On the one hand, this all too modern symbol of Yes - saying unveils the impotent passivity and the inhuman detachment of Christian faith in God, of Christian dependence upon and submission to God, the demonic consequences of which are so passionately portrayed in Ivan Karamazov.

In so far as it has been lost, the church has become futile and impotent.

In 1999, Leon Podles published The Church Impotent: The Feminisation of Christianity.

Once you realize the extent of that, Vic, and our incredibly tiny place in the cosmos, then you can get a greater appreciation for just how specious and flawed and impotent the Christian creation stories are and how feeble and inadequate the Christian world view is.

Into both these pitfalls we have fallen, and unless we straightway by the help of God climb out of them, the Church bids fair to remain in its present enfeebled and impotent state.