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Example sentences for: powerlessness

How can you use “powerlessness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.
Nelson's response to powerlessness was architectural: He transformed part of the fusty old family precincts into a sleek "Bauhaus fantasyland" for himself and his brothers.
Next to that story was an editorial titled "American Powerlessness."
The gags in Office Space aren't anything-goes: They're rooted in what sociology professor Lynn S. Chaucer calls Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (the title of her 1992 book).
But even if you do not understand the preceding, you probably feel the tension between words conveying force, strength, and menace, such as power users, abort, dump, head crash , and munged , with words suggesting vulnerability, frailty, and humor as a defense against such powerlessness, in words like technoweenie, nerdettes, user-friendly , and DWIM (for do what I mean, a mythological key that would make the computer do what you cannot figure out yourself).