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impotent
1. There is no solace in the confusion of movement, but I took a little heart in the undeniable presence of other men as impotent and bewildered as I was
2. When you are alone, to have even the slightest familiarity of walls and doors and floors shifted constantly, breaks you down and leaves you impotent and resigned
3. On occasions I still smouldered with that inner anger, but I came to see through Menachem’s observations that we all, captives and guards, felt a similar sense of outrage and impotent fury
4. while its impotent, withdrawn claws
5. Maggie feels suddenly impotent, but she focuses and manages to spit her message out
6. ‘Mr Hartley-Jones was impotent, Mr Middlesex, he encouraged other men to have sex with his wife
7. Davie is twice the size of the man in front of him, he could rip him apart if he wanted to, he feels sure of it, but the reality borne out by years of experience is that he is impotent
8. Seek the experience of the place where human thought cannot go, and where it is impotent
9. He could only sit and watch in impotent silence as the enemy appeared to draw an ever tightening
10. If he married Schwartzie he would be…he knew he would be impotent for the rest of his life
11. However, the very shrewd takes delight with great glee contemplating the spectacle of a disunited and impotent Security Council
12. All he could do was lay impotent and endure
13. The sharp pain of clamps and knives as the old motherfucker violated me with a metal phallus, too impotent to rape me, yet still the torture, the sting of knives that cut deep burrows into my back
14. “Don't glare at me you little whore,” he was looking at Jade now, leering and stumbling towards her, fumbling with his breeches but waving his impotent cock in her face
15. This turns these people impotent, same if they possess immense potential wealth
16. like manner their wives lay up part of it in salt; but to the poor and impotent they give nothing of it
17. But then he would show them the impotent face of his kindness
18. might be “strong”; in all others, it would be impotent
19. It would sit idly, impotent, and not
20. of the manifold, and words, these impotent little creatures, are the lifeless carriers of meaning
21. “To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent
22. He rages in impotent fury at pharaoh
23. Dagon raged in impotent fury at this anointing
24. I learned a great deal about how to run a theatre; how a good stage manager is the true boss – the lynch-pin of a theatre company, how sets were made, stored and converted; how to kill someone’s funny line; how a director can reduce actors to impotent tears and backstage hands to revolt; how to design a lighting plan and execute it… but I wasn’t acting! ASMs could expect to wait a year or more before being given a substantial role
25. Where the fuck had I been living? Surely I knew that homos could be brought before the courts, imprisoned for up to twenty years and be raped, have their crimes published in the papers, be fired from their jobs, kicked out of rented accommodation [which is why he wanted to own his own house], disowned by families, incarcerated in funny farms, given electric shock treatment and…” He dropped his head onto strong arms and let years of anger and anxiety erupt in sobs of impotent misery
26. -This book has the key! Why cannot we see it? – Cirila said with a melancholic and impotent air
27. How feeble they are, how frail, how impotent their lives
28. She cried, well aware that men are rendered impotent by women’s tears, so he reluctantly agreed and gave her a blanket on the sofa
29. An impotent offender may try hiding his situation and keep up appearances by marrying and adopting children
30. If the victim wasn’t raped he could be impotent
31. The latter, lecherous, ugly, and impotent
32. Their saw-edged crescents cut down the men of Dagon like sheep, and against that unearthly knife the magic of Khosatral was impotent
33. But my urge was impotent; my search lacked driving power; my quest suffered from the absence of certainty of directionization
34. "The United Nations is impotent,” declared a young woman, a student of political science
35. 3 But Christianity was sufficiently socialized and paganized that, while it was impotent to stay the oncoming dark ages, it was the better prepared to survive this long period of moral darkness and spiritual stagnation
36. WITH THE ANGRY IMPOTENT SUNSET
37. The slavers knew the value of submissive Swordsman women in Federation brothels especially in light of the recent attack and the desire of impotent and incompetent Federation officers to gain revenge any way they could
38. the United Nations appears to be impotent in imposing any kind
39. He treated the classical writers with a household familiarity, as if they had all been his room-mates at some period, and he knew many things that should not have been known, such as the fact that Saint Augustine wore a wool jacket under his habit that he did not take off for fourteen years and that Arnaldo of Villanova, the necromancer, was impotent since childhood because of a scorpion bite
40. cashtration – the act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period –
41. The Luftwaffe was finally defeated by the Allied air forces, not in the air but rendered impotent on the ground through starvation of fuel
42. His cruiser assault force had already suffered heavily, with seven of his nine cruisers now either destroyed or dead in space, reduced to impotent hulks
43. He obviously thinks that our great battle fleets will be rendered impotent
44. despondent, impotent and angry
45. “But that sort of renders this meeting impotent, seeing how
46. As for our airforce, it was mostly rendered impotent even before the start of our invasion
47. In other words, he can provide the moral justification for the elimination of sufficient people to leave their organisations totally leaderless and impotent
48. Sullivan claimed they were impotent, an obvious explanation for their obsessive use of sex in metaphor
49. And what is man now?� A fallen creature, a ruin, a being that shows the marks of corruption all over, his heart like Nebuchadnezzar, degraded and earthly, looking down and not up,�his affections like a household in disorder, calling no man master, all extravagance and confusion,�his understanding like a lamp flickering in the socket, impotent to guide him, not knowing good from evil,�his will like a rudderless ship, tossed to and fro by every desire, and constant only in choosing any way rather than God's
50. ” Urit mumbled in impotent defiance, slamming his palm against the inconspicuous Fly on the Wall audio spy he was passing