impotence

And over the past year or so, I have come to regard online fact-checking platforms as perhaps the foremost symbols of journalistic impotence in the Trump era.

Andreu Salom, mayor of L’Alcúldia, said he felt “abandonment and absolute 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.

Witness the current impotence of the United Nations in the face of the many global challenges, and the despair of its secretary-general, António Guterres, who has said that with climate change, “Humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

In the secular realm, Douglas Blow posits in “On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy” that a similar desire took hold over urbane Italians reduced to impotence in the face of repeated invasions and occupations by foreign powers like France and Spain from 1494 onwards.