powerlessness

Example Sentences

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As I continued the trail, I started to think that maybe my endeavor was a reaction to my feeling of total powerlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Its credo was “a rejection of powerlessness and the creation of conditions for civilized behavior. We are not overmatched by the problems we face.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

"Everything should have led you to resign," she added, pointing to the government's "powerlessness".

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

What it emphatically cannot mean is acceding to powerlessness in the face of a bunch of institutions that are working to make it seem as if their omnipotence is inevitable, or irrevocable, or constitutionally overdetermined.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Unnerved by the sensation of utter powerlessness, he only summoned his reserves of sunny optimism to field phone calls from his parents.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik