powerlessness

How To Use powerlessness In A Sentence

• She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
• When, in the middle of the the first season, callow account exec Pete Campbell walks past striving-to-be-a-copywriter secretary Peggy Olson's desk without acknowledging her, Peggy's incremental comprehension of her powerlessness with this guy she's had sex with is documented in her face's shift from anticipation to abashment to acceptance. Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women
• The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality.
• His critique of landlord powerlessness rests on the belief that aristocratic rule and estate ownership are ends in themselves.
• Musharraf spent much of his time talking about what he called the desperation, hopelessness, and powerlessness of Muslims around the world, who see disputes like the one over Kashmir and the Palestinian people going unresolved. CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2001
• In general, one's position in an organization, one's salary ranking in that organization and one's value/replaceability in that organization all lead to a delineation of power or powerlessness. Audience Weighs In On Brett Farve, Black 'Girl Power'
• The powerlessness of the police in these matters was a joke. Times, Sunday Times
• Secretary's Office, was reputed to be an excellent mathematician, and had high testimonials of his qualification, he applied for the professorship; evidently feeling the anomalousness of his position, and his inability and powerlessness to establish a system of Public School The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Sunshine restored, even in the flooded quarters, the true Parisian gaiety that had for a time been overclouded with a terrible sense of powerlessness and insecurity. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
• To not know is bewildering and only contributes to and compounds the feelings of helplessness and powerlessness that the bereaved parents will feel. Times, Sunday Times