Sentences with phrase «seem impotent»

And those other tasks of living, despite their urgency, seem impotent to resist the power of art to assert its own capacity to regenerate us.

We can protest the pell - mell course toward catastrophe, but we seem impotent to stop it.

He would have seemed impotent and powerless and no one would have taken advice from a man like that.

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 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.

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Yet, it seems to me that Haverford is, by important measures, an impotent place.

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

Well, at the moment, everyone seems to be saying that this formerly hyped «beast» is the most blind, crippled, toothless and impotent creature.

If only someone in parliament would speak against these cuts, but they all seem to be impotent or accepting of them.

Addison finds a few leads and follows them linearly to a conclusion, whose moral seems to be that life really can be as cruelly random as it seems to teens who, like Addison, frequently feel impotent to effect change in the adult world.

is Vyacheslav Molotov, a former Stalin protege and the longtime minister of foreign affairs — a man who seems politically impotent but has some tricks up his sleeve.