impotence

Example Sentences

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It simply emphasised that Arsenal's impotence at one end leaves them increasingly vulnerable at the other.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

Men do not face a binary choice between power, birthright and dignity on one hand, and emasculation and impotence on the other.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

In fact, despite all of DeLillo’s fascination with terrorism and death cults and the impotence of the individual swept up in unstoppable social forces, I’ve never considered him to be an especially paranoid writer.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

“It’s a really bitter feeling, a feeling of impotence, of not being able to give them what they need,” said Milagros Lopez, senior manager for access at HOPICS.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton