Use "powerlessness" in a sentence

1. To dream that you are in a cage indicates that you are experiencing inhibitions and powerlessness in some areas of your life

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2. Nothing could be eviler than this powerlessness

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3. Someone cried? Filled with desperation and powerlessness

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4. In his summer blue eyes was the flicker of the same powerlessness she felt herself

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5. For long, she just sobbed in powerlessness and clung to father

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6. What combats powerlessness? Power

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7. Now I associate it not with my friend but with the powerlessness I felt as they dragged me to the chasm

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8. Roger’s lack of preparation to cope adequately with the complexity of his current struggles, his inability to handle correctly Josie’s behavioral patterns and Robert’s psychological and mental needs, and his powerlessness to check the downhill drift of his financial condition clouded his mind to the point that he may have missed some of Josie’s veiled overtures towards “married calm”

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9. You have recreated a situation of powerlessness, so that all the desperation

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10. itself to sterility and powerlessness

11. bitterness of exile, the powerlessness of emptiness, the anguish of death that

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12. Of course, if you are happy in your powerlessness and poverty, then none of this matters

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13. Before the powerlessness, Leticia concentrated her attacks on my arms, which was the only part of my body that was uncovered, and like a feline began to scratch me skillfully

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14. Finally he spoke with powerlessness airs:

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15. The demon looked at me with powerlessness

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16. feeling, the feeling of cold rage, the feeling of powerlessness

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17. “Oh, how she demonstrated the powerlessness of wealth against her sense of purpose!” he said on resumption

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18. The had taken charge of their lives, where the old guard having been brought up in a world of personal powerlessness, had constantly tried to satisfy the basic human need to prevail, not realizing that it came from within

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19. On top of the Northwest tower of the Antonia fortress, Sartorius was watching with Prefect Coponius, Tribune Decius and a number of legionnaires the progress of the rioters, raging at his powerlessness to stop them

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20. This involves admitting their powerlessness over food, their belief that they

21. Once life is approached from that angle, then the feelings of powerlessness and the suffering this manifests ceases

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22. It was only a matter of time before this growing sense of powerlessness turned into a blind, uncontrollable rage that would only be satisfied by turning against the women and dominating them

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23. The power can be seen like a bottle of coca cola, once opened the content rises out due to pressure and powerlessness

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24. If man thinks of that and makes some comparisons, he will know himself and realize his powerlessness, as he will recognize his Creator and His Grandeur

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25. Guardian, but there was a sense of powerlessness in this situation that held him in anxiety

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26. Engendering a sense of powerlessness, while training one in the prowess of problem solving by eliminating the competition that hinders your innate, god given, and right granted exceptionalism, is a Tipping Point Therapy controlled and coaxed path to produce and direct a collective, that is systematically thwarted, to will violence

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27. This is not simply a symbolic act of powerlessness against suffocating oppression, but an act of creative elimination: removing from the world things that destroy it

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28. To relive and accept the most complete powerlessness so he can acquire the power that comes from doing so (more than once he experiences the most

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29. By repeating the same type of situations over and over again perhaps we are stuck in repetition compulsion, but it could also be an attempt by the adult I to make the passage from total powerlessness before the mother to a real power, so as to destroy the devouring mother and the I’s own complicity with her (the Suitors must be destroyed and Homer speaks of this constantly throughout the whole poem, from the beginning to the end)

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30. Therefore darkness belongs not just to dark matter, it is found within the I and its purpose is to macerate the I in its powerlessness and prepare it for its encounter with the SELF

31. This urge is very common among those who are faced with pain and powerlessness (In Italy in 2004 there were 58,000 suicides)

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32. ULYSSES, FROM POWERLESSNESS TO HUMILITY THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF

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33. Ulysses returns to Aeolus to ask that he give him the same gift again, but Aeolus does not hesitate to kick him out, which throws him into total despair and powerlessness

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34. But if he hadn’t had help from Hermes he would have again been in a state of total powerlessness; he was wise to listen to Hermes, but had he not done so he too would have become a swine

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35. But when before he had passed by the mountain where Scylla was hiding, he had again been thrown into a situation of complete powerlessness

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36. powerlessness because he cannot avoid being smashed against the rocks and he cannot find a place to come to shore

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37. And yet again, when Ulysses must face the violence of the Suitors, who have settled in his house and arrogantly devour his goods, Ulysses is at first in a state of powerlessness and he must withstand all the humiliations that the Suitors wish to inflict on him, without any possibility of reacting to them

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38. Just as his pain over his powerlessness was once enormous, now his joy for being able to turn his relationship with his mother around becomes just as big

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39. To be able to accept and fully experience powerlessness and center oneself on the Cosmic SELF are the two ways that Homer indicates can help us acquire the type of virile personal power that we need to overcome the devouring mother

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40. This powerlessness is similar to the kind one can feel in regards to the abuse of power witnessed in certain human interactions or couple relationships

41. This type of powerlessness is similar to what human beings can feel when faced with an environmental catastrophe

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42. Strength is not violence, it is a power that one acquires after living for a long time and after elaborating one’s powerlessness so it can be transformed into personal power

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43. To be able to accept total powerlessness and transform it into personal power (an acceptance of powerlessness is a form of great power) is the highest form of strength that a man can reach

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44. Women can’t be beaten in the art of putting men into situations of complete powerlessness and total exasperation

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45. We must reflect on the pain of having to experience complete powerlessness before he can gain the power to gain victory over and destroy the devouring mother

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46. While in this state of powerlessness, he suddenly sees a man whose body is in good health, and whose face is overflowing with activity and vigor

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47. powerlessness is NOT what God meant for his

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48. With the invention of a new lifestyle, came authority: creating the imbalance of power and powerlessness

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49. the imbalanced dynamic of power and powerlessness, the imbalanced dynamics of authority, power, oppression, and irresponsibility were created as a norm of civilized existence

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50. Today, the imbalance of power and powerlessness, responsibility and irresponsibility, continues to exist all over the earth

51. Cooperation, kindness, empathy, love, connectedness, sensitivity, can only exist when there is no great imbalance of power and powerlessness

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52. So what ends up being valued? Something actual? A car? A house? The potential of power or wealth? Or merely the symbol itself and not what it represents? Or merely the idea of safety and security that this accumulation represents? Or merely the idea of Accumulation itself as a mindless, dogmatic belief system? And why? Fear of poverty? Fear of powerlessness? Fear of others? The only reason this dynamic of hoarding exists, the only reason it is corrupt, is because it is based upon the principle of tool-use… one-sided splitting: i

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53. The greater the greed, the greater the secrecy, the greater the profit: the more the imbalance between power and powerlessness, the more the inequity between wealth and poverty

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54. The few, rare, lucky children who manage to escape the old vicious cycles of poverty, oppression, powerlessness, those who immigrate and live in industrialized cities…

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55. And the root origin of this need is the fear of powerlessness: or uselessness, which translates into the fear of meaninglessness

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56. A belief in luck or fate is an easy answer, an easy way to appease and rationalize the sense of powerlessness and meaninglessness in your life, which comes from existing inside the hierarchical structure of civilization

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57. And that attitude and assumption of powerlessness is what keeps us victims

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58. It is only because the masses have been brainwashed to believe in their own powerlessness, that elite scum can commit more evil… more crimes and atrocities and sins; than all the lower classes put together… and successfully get away with it

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59. And the reason you have the factors of power and powerlessness within human societies is because of the dynamic of pyramidal accumulation

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60. As long as the conditions of wealth and poverty exist, as long as the conditions of power and powerlessness exist, as long as the basic pyramidal structure of civilization exists: the conditions of fear-hate-envy-greed; will continue to exist inside human souls

61. Instead of reversing the imbalance between the powerful and powerless, you need to eliminate both imbalances so there is no such thing as power or powerlessness

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62. Whenever any of us live through a traumatic experience, any experience that involves fear and a sense of rejection and powerlessness, we can respond by forming a meaning perspective or meaning perspectives derived from that experience

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63. � Fear and powerlessness can make a demand on us to make sense or form out of the chaos those feelings make of the world around us

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64. � Such powerlessness forms a substantial barrier to our becoming self, a barrier to the transformative, to liberation, and to autonomy�all part of our working definition of self

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65. � On the other hand, why would I choose to allow that previous problems from the previous day make the rest of my day just plain lousy?� We decided that one very good reason was that something still bothered me, something that offered me a sense of powerlessness or helplessness, and that helped me choose a bad mood to put on for the day

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66. When we look at anger and other manifestations of powerlessness, when we open ourselves to how we really feel when they arise, we may find that we feel hurt more than anything else

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67. � That sense of exposure can take us into fear because fear also serves as an expression of the feeling of powerlessness, a profound loss of position power

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68. � My supposed feelings of irritation came from a meaning perspective and, now that I think about it again, my fear of my powerlessness to help them

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69. in your powerlessness and poverty, then none of this matters

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70. That was fitting justice, but my granddaughter? Where is there any justice for her powerlessness over her own fate that she did nothing to deserve?”

71. Before it retreat in the powerlessness the best minds of mankind

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72. It was the usual answer, but Caris felt maddened by powerlessness each time she heard it

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73. She felt dismayed at her own powerlessness to combat the disease, and devastated by the filth of her hospital

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74. I am glad to have a fuller realization of my powerlessness

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75. They asked very detailed questions about situations of “powerlessness” and “unmanageability” and I did a very harsh accounting in which, for the first time, I blamed only myself for these situations

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76. He kissed me and let his weight fall onto me just far enough that I felt the delicious powerlessness of lust, the hardness of a body against mine

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77. Small and dainty, as if radiating a light of her own in the deep shade of the interlaced boughs, she resembled a good fairy, weary with a long career of well-doing, touched by the withering suspicion of the uselessness of her labours, the powerlessness of her magic

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78. For it was only with her that he’d ever felt that powerful powerlessness he knew was love

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79. Out of college, but also out of formlessness, powerlessness, the brute facticity he’d been beating his head against

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80. There was gathering within him an amazed sense of his powerlessness over Rosamond

81. The powerlessness and fear

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82. His countenance reminded one of a lamp quenched, waiting to be re-lit—and alas! it was not himself that could now kindle the lustre of animated expression: he was dependent on another for that office! I had meant to be gay and careless, but the powerlessness of the strong man touched my heart to the quick: still I accosted him with what vivacity I could

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83. The position of a poor orphan left solitary and friendless in the power of rascals filled me with fear, while my own powerlessness equally distressed me; but Chvabrine, Chvabrine above all, filled me with alarm

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84. One could see that from his look; but in his powerlessness he could only move his hand, the result of which was that Tchekounoff spoke no more about the matter

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85. The water was rough, and he judged from the clumsy way in which Garstin handled his oar and his apparent powerlessness to impart vigour to the stroke that muscular development had not formed part of his education

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