Sentences with phrase «of impotent»

Every COP drags through two weeks of impotent spectacle while the real activity takes place behind closed doors.

Another take on India's upheavals in the 1970s is Rabin Mondal's «The King Series» (1975 — 77), with its surreal scenes of an impotent sovereign.

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.

How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.»

the powerpoint is slide with definitions of the impotent / undeserving / deserving poor 1.

Carrying the burden of impotent anger she increasingly acts up at home, to the chagrin of her actress mother (J Smith - Cameron); there's trouble with boys and a more risky dalliance with her geometry teacher, Mr Aaron (Matt Damon, putting his Good Will Hunting mathematics wizardry to use).

There's no moral stake in scrambling for scraps, just this Pyrrhic duty to compete, lust fast - cooling on the proverbial sheets, damp and rumpled as they are from a lot of impotent thrusting.

In this bleak future of an impotent government, The Order stepped in to prevent society from crumbling and gained trust from the people while recruiting from the finest in their fields.

Florence Pugh has come flying in out of nowhere with this delectably sinful turn as the young wife of an impotent brute who falls in love with a servant and won't let anything stand in the way of their relationship, no matter how many lines of decency and morality need crossing.

«The Square» satirizes the kind of impotent, progressive relativism that has infected modern art and thought.

But if that is not underwritten by the possibility — very sparingly used — of something more than the registering of an impotent complaint, then the extent to which the Lords» role will entail genuine scrutiny is questionable.

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

I'm gobbling up every morsel of impotent frustration.

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.

Is god just an impotent reflection of the mind of an impotent person?

This positive conception of man contrasts vividly with mission and Salvation Army doctrines of the impotent, sinful man who can be saved only by surrender to an external Power.

I think that sounds enlightened but to me it sounds kind of 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.»

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.

And their traditional tool to address these sorts of challenges is now essentially impotent.

It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants can not be linked to their true names or physical locations.

That business might eventually beget a new tide of income for the company, but it could also infer impotent if the cryptocurrency marketplace crashes.

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.

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.

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.

Is it impotent to free a child from barbaric treatment at the hands of those who are supposed to love it?

America is impotent to stop the rise of Islam.

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.

Feeling psychologically impotent, they lack a sense of self - worth.

What happened was that the evil Demiurge, whose antithesis is the impotent Good God and whose delegate is the Devil, took over the world, leaving us strangers within it and alienated from that true abundance of being that would otherwise have been our birthright.

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.

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

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

God is not so impotent and foolish as to put Himself and His plan of redemption at risk due to the simple and rebellious wills of mankind.

The mission of the New Evangelization is to proclaim the living person of Jesus Christ to those for whom God is a benevolent, impersonal, and mostly impotent figure.

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.

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 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

It continues to have an effeminate, sensuous conception of punishment, and an impotent will for the Good.

But the impotent double - minded one has removed the boundary limit, because he only wills the Good out of fear of earth's punishment.

An impotent ICC may serve merely to stoke the fires of cynicism.

But John's vision shows that, far from their being impotent, the very altar of heaven responded to the prayers of this nascent movement.

Yet surely the most striking feature of prophecy belief is precisely the opposite: how impotent it has been as an instrument of public policy.

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.