impotence

For America’s critics in the region, the apparent impotence of the superpower when it comes to influencing the largest recipient of US aid is baffling.

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

He emphasized his wife’s autonomy, her co-ownership of their house and her constitutional rights — and his own impotence: “There were no additional steps I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.”

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.

Just Friday, a similar U.S. resolution at the Security Council that did condemn Hamas was vetoed by permanent members China and Russia, underscoring U.S. impotence in resolving the Gaza war.