Impuissant

Now, ask yourself: Just how torn up do you think BO was when his direct competition was axed over his pusillanimous and impuissant reluctance to engage in the "war on terror"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

His fans couldn't care less that Sean welshed on a bet, for charity, no less, and is impuissant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Je dis depuis longtemps que les Quebecois veulent une option qui n'est pas la separation, qui n'est pas la corruption ou qui n'est pas un parti impuissant ou un parti du status quo et du centrisme. ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)

C'est vrai que je me sentais impuissant devant le drame qui se jouait à des milliers de kilomètres de chez moi, mais, au moins, je pouvais parler, témoigner. ❋ Marie Lebert (N/A)

'Lutteur impuissant et fatigué,' says M. Hamel, the most thoroughgoing defender of Robespierre, upon this, 'il va se retirer, moralement du moins.' ❋ John Morley (1880)

All immediately forget that his idiocy is only assumed; and what woman ever ceases from deploring the unhappy lot of the future wife of their impuissant Prince! ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

(And don't go arguing that there may be some sort of connection between being immunodeficient and suffering from "a complex of wasting diseases"; we are in the fierce realms of the Dionysian, and you should've checked your impuissant Apollonian "logic" at the door.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we need far clearer descriptions of what is meant by "poor," for Scripture recognizes more than one kind: the indigent poor who may lack the basic commodities of food and shelter, to the impuissant poor who lack political clout and social esteem and are victims of prejudice, to the humble poor who are spiritually meek and dependent upon God. ❋ Unknown (2008)