His fans couldn't care less that Sean welshed on a bet, for charity, no less, and is impuissant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel: Stop Repeating and Retelling What Rush Says!] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

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!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

(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.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouphonia] Reference

LIONEL: Right, they're effete, they're feckless, they're impuissant.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 23, 2006] Reference