Sentences with phrase «impotent when»

It is because their ideologically driven insistence on a low CO2 sensitivity makes their outlook impotent when it comes to understanding climate.

Claiming credit for Cuomo's recent, high - profile expressions of liberalism doesn't change the fact that they gave their line to the governor, and then proved impotent when he immediately made a mockery of his end of the deal.

No wonder I'm impotent when she's so pushy.

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When you turn a living metaphor into a fact, you've turned it into an idol and thereby made it 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.

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

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 satisfaction.

Our dry, sterile, impotent theologizing and catechizing has produced, as Drinkwater says, «neither light nor heat,» and while we were talking our listeners, like Eutyches when Paul was lecturing, fell asleep.

To me, that's the most ridiculous, impotent - sounding God that comes to my mind when someone says that.

It's not only that it leads to a distortion of faith, but when you think about it, faith as «belief» is really quite impotent.

The shades of the dead in Hades are impotent and mindless, capable of intelligent communication only after drinking sacrificial blood (as when summoned by Odysseus).

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.

But with us it's «oh it was an own goal» as though it counts for something less and «our attack is impotent» when we really were content with not playing attacking football and really, it wasn't needed.

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.

11:27 - Nick Robinson for the BBC - How is Cameron setting the agenda, when he'll be impotent to stop Lisbon or a Blair presidency?

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.

The strap in question is a contraption deployed by impotent men to maintain an erection — kind of ironic when you consider how successfully B&S purged their music of rock's traditional priapic thrust.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

While Winston is presented as honorable, loyal and committed to serving the needs of Britain, especially when it comes to preventing the deaths of British soldiers, he also appears impotent and not nearly as commanding as he possibly believes he should be.

Patrick Wilson is incredible in this role — playing a superhero who is insecure, depressed and impotent, except when he needs to beat up bad guys.

Turns out Abe is impotent, however, and when he gets his mojo back by plotting to murder an allegedly corrupt judge — based entirely on an overheard conversation in a diner — it becomes clear that Irrational Man is a comic variation on the Crime And Punishment narrative that Allen introduced in Crimes And Misdemeanors and then recycled in Match Point and Cassandra's Dream.

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.

Now that the Soviet Union is dead, was revealed to be economically impotent and now we know the most dangerous parts of the Cold War were when America didn't nuke USSR twice and defended China against the USSR once (2 - 1 score for the doves), why can't the focus be upon amassing longevity rather than status via brainwashing?

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?