powerlessness
pow er luhs nuhs
- n the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
- Pu Yi proved a brittle ruler who lashed out at cowering servants to compensate for his sense of powerlessness.
- For 20 years Soviet authorities have suppressed the publication of Rybakov's broadly autobiographical novel about power and powerlessness under Stalin just before the purges of the .
- Screaming powerlessly at a defenseless television set is a metaphor for the sense of powerlessness that unites these elements in liberal rage.