Sentences with phrase «make impotent»

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

Day jobs are what kill us - in your metaphor they make us impotent.

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

He's either going to do nothing, which makes him impotent or sick and twisted and praying to him would be a waste of my final seconds of life OR he'll stop the crash which will only prove he had the ability to prevent it before it started and didn't, making him sick and twisted.

Any media outlet not straitjacketed by party support or made impotent by extremist neutrality is frozen out of proceedings.

The scribbling stops, as the cowed priest is made impotent forthwith by the sister's insubordination, and resigns from St. Nicholas.

Second, the game implements the Black Ops 3 movement system but then through tweaks and level design has made it impotent.

Not exact matches

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

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.»

@ 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.»

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.

God does not veto our decisions by making us completely impotent (coercion.)

The most important thing is this makes me somebody i am impotent now

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

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?

Satan uses this to his advantage to make the church almost impotent.

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.

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

But impotent rage and apportioning blame alone (even if it can be apportioned) will never make real and beneficial change.

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.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 101) And in a passage, in which the three formative elements are presented succinctly, he says,»... the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms are together impotent to achieve actuality apart from the completed ideal harmony, which is God.»

The Gunners wonderkid made his competitive debut for the men's senior national side during the recent international break, but was impotent as the Super Eagles were dumped out of the running for Cup of Nations 2017 qualifying at the hands of Egypt.

Giroud would have made that attack slower and impotent.

If Stan Stan the ferret wearing man, or Ivan the terrible were interested in fottoballing success they would have romanced allegri for the last four months to bring in a guy who made Barca over two legs look like an impotent squid.

The «right» to a public education in this country has made schools impotent to discipline young people who have turned the education system into a race for the bottom.

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.

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.

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.

The film Czech director Machaty's overheated melodrama about an impotent husband, a frisky young wife and the beau who spots her skinny - dipping made an international icon of 19 - year - old Hedy Kiesler.

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.

Taken sees something downright impotent about this quest for justice, given how easily the vengeance corresponds with the humiliation at the hands of those bourgeois motherfuckers who have made Bryan's life so difficult to live.

The rigs, a street - tuned Land Rover Defender 90 and a more opulent but nonetheless off - road capable 110, make the Porsche Cayenne S I arrived in look impotent.

The threat of a bank run is made much more impotent.

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

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.

Imagine an unpopular, impotent, and fragile UK Government, trying to make political capital out of a looming crisis.

This gaping disconnect between voter desires and DC action is exactly why we're seeing protests like the Occupy Wall Street movement spring up — politicians are increasingly catering their decision - making to please a wealthy elite (and that wealthy elite happens to own the power plants and factories that would have to clean up their acts), and the voice of the average citizen is rendered impotent.

Too little CO2 in the atmosphere will make all the males of all the species impotent.

The article concludes that, «As a result, he has made Penelas look weak and impotent.»