Sentences with phrase «impotent on»

If it weren't for that easy access, the service would be rendered impotent on its island of an app.

The work slyly suggests that a grand, large scale painting of, say, Jackson Pollock has fallen off the wall and lies flaccid and impotent on the floor.

This is a movie that tenders the taming of Shampoo's co-writer, producer, and star Warren Beatty and then snatches the dream of a SATURDAY EVENING POST existence from the domesticated beast's grip; Beatty's reputation as a ladies man has overshadowed his startling willingness to deconstruct that image and render himself impotent on screen time and again.

Even our defenders have been impotent on set pieces, they win headers but they just fail to direct them at goal.

To be honest I think Ramsey was very important to our line up when he was played out wide, then like you say he was badly missed for a spell, we looked impotent on our right side for a good number of weeks.

Not exact matches

Tarr and other students like Emma Gonzalez (the senior with the shaved head) and David Hogg (targeted by conspiracy theorists because his father once worked for the FBI) have, virtually on their own, turned what could have become another impotent «thoughts and prayers» response to a massacre into a national movement to transform the nation's gun laws.

Gelles explains, «By slapping the word mindfulness on new products and services simply to make them fashionable, these corporations are making the word itself somewhat impotent.»

If they were a tofu and sprouts chain they might have something to worry about, however the 1 % crybaby fruitcakes will find out just how impotent they are on this one.

The base fact you need to understand is that nothing never made anything, ever, and you're waiting for nothing to prove it so you can counter my claim that I'm still waiting for it to make a universe on my desktop... it never does... your science's «nothing god» is impotent and a huge time waster... for you... because you'll be spending a lot of time wasting away... and wondering why you didn't listen to someone that KNOWS God is there.

Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.

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.

We are not to bend or yield before evil, nor to act like cowards or impotent weaklings: we are to overcome, to surmount evil, to go beyond it, to stand on a terrain that evil can not reach, use weapons that evil can not turn back on us, seek a victory that evil can never attain!

On the level of reality, the good is impotent; all power is on the side of evil.&raquOn the level of reality, the good is impotent; all power is on the side of evil.&raquon the side of evil.»

They are there, but barely hanging on with any hope that God is more powerful than the impotent spirituality that can at times overtake them.

Although the blindingly evidential etiology of the man's statements lay far outside these cloistered monastery walls, who, while being graphically illustrated by the utterly impotent insanity of this monkish maelstrom, I'd still bet this whole monk - world thing owes its very inception and existence to one woman and one woman only,, the woman who first broke the heart of some long - ago - loser, some cowardly imbecilic pre-monk who mistakenly sought refuge on a rock - strewn and fallow hillside long long ago.

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.

You... plz, I had hoped you had some common sense, but to make harmless and impotent physical threats on a comment board... oy vey.

What had the God of Israel to do with Damascus, the power that for a hundred years had wasted and ravaged his land, had enslaved and despoiled and brutally maltreated his people, while he looked on impotent?

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.

As Dr. George Foot Moore puts it: «It was not the Babylonians in the might of their gods who had triumphed over Judah and its impotent god; it was Jehovah himself who had launched Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts against the doomed city to execute his judgment on religious treason.»

To end, I want to quote my late brother who was also a minority, the great Howard Truman (the italics are my additions): «Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, sizeand national origin?

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

A nation that spends billions on sophisticated military hardware and computerized weapons only to be rendered impotent by a mob of poor, screaming Islamic students ought to appreciate the irony of how powerless the powerful can be.

Here, on the contrary, the actuality (not being in despair), which in its very form is a negation, is the impotent, annihilated possibility; ordinarily, actuality in comparison with possibility is a confirmation, here it is a negation.

6:35 - 43, 8:1 - 9 and parallels), and the Healings of the Impotent Man and of the Blind Man (5:2 - 9, 9:1 - 7; the synoptic parallels are here not so close), and the fourth evangelist appears to be drawing on a tradition similar to that used by Mark and Luke.

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.

That seeming impossibility left me a bit creatively impotent, so the idea got put on the back burner.

ideal game to bring back xhaka for carzola put on perez for walcott and give adelaide a shot at glory... let c what the impotent one does

It was a classic lesson on how to take good players and create an impotent team.

It keeps on leaving our defence open and our attack impotent.

They don't think, they just read and repeat... Sounds like a few of the impotent moan merchants on here.

Also note how FIFA has been very quiet on this issue, once again showing just incompetent and impotent they can at times be.

The manager has not signed benzema cause or even Cavani for that matter cause the Euro 2016 is soon upon us and the french national team is also a worry and no other major team outside of France emphasis it squad out of french nationals with Giroud a expected focal point for France and he may had a word with Wenger or the other way around by publicly coming out and stating not to rely on transfers, and players like Walcott, Wilshere are impotent useless frustrating and waste of space who may have had a chat with Wenger and if you see the likes of Ozil and Sanchez they want competition whereas the others are scared they may lose!!

When women can pay their own freight in life with education, jobs and careers and are not dependent on other's for survival those «enforcement mechanisms» are, more likely than not, rendered impotent.

Until the biometric voting system is centralized, all the stop guard measures being proposed by political parties on how to maintain a credible voters» register remains impotent.

Ann Widdecombe gives her views on Britain's «lousy» parliament and explains why she thinks today's MPs are more impotent than ever.

From alleged indiscipline in the President's government, to the Herculean task of defending his administration, and so on, Momodu said the Buhari government had done badly by regularly feeding the people with «impotent» excuses.

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.

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.

He then blasted the Working Families Party (WFP) for its cynical, sad and impotent strategy to convince its members and supporters that somehow voting Cuomo on the WFP line makes him a progressive.

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.

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.

Depending on how you look at it, Chang is a judge and gatekeeper of order, punishing Julian's family for Billy's crime, or he is the übermench to Gosling's incompetent and maybe impotent (if I've read Refn's symbols right) Hamlet.

As the days dragged on, America seemed an impotent giant against the Islamic fanatics as the Carter administration lost face and the Khomeini regime threatened to try the hostages as spies.

Furthermore all on screen deaths and other acts of violence occur inside cars or next to cars, stripping them of their liberating power and leaving them impotent.

Meanwhile, impotent cop Tinam (Simon Yam) is hot on the trail, if you know what I mean (and I think that you do).

For those who found the Auschwitz sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) offensive and tacky, where Olivia Munn, decked out in full make - up, skin - tight bathing suit and cape, stands with a group of antagonizing mutants amidst the ruins of unspeakable tragedy, here you can feast your eyes on the shirtless Alexander Skarsgard as he towers above an impotent cadre of chained black men, looking mournfully to him for assistance.

Another inspired moment pits Ruth's own impotent frustration against that of the detective very marginally on her case, the pair performing a sublime duet of passive aggression.

It does provide some insight on why the idea of a «Great Wall of Trump» has gained traction in segments of the American public while it is equally regarded as impotent farce in the face of the entrenched underworld, both crime and law enforcement and their symbiosis, essayed herein.

It's funny to me that men from one of the most populated places on the planet have, in the American cinema, been reduced to hilarious, impotent sidekicks or wise old men who know kung fu — or is there some kind of Little Richard image - castration going on here to protect delicate Caucasian egos from bedroom Yellow Peril?