The feelings of sorrow and powerlessness have to go somewhere.
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Clearly, Luke is channeling his powerlessness into building elaborate theories.
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A sense of powerlessness may have informed protesters this time.
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The sense of powerlessness when inside prison walls is overwhelming.
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When all else fails, McConnell's preferred tactic is feigned powerlessness.
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How I — and others — get over that feeling of powerlessness?
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It's a way of dealing with a sense of powerlessness.
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It is big on rhetoric, feeble in action, reflecting powerlessness.
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But powerlessness in the face of desires existing within us.
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There's a lot of powerlessness but you have to let go.
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Obama "has experienced that power, the power of powerlessness," Mott says.
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" He added that the White House had revealed its "utter powerlessness.
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But the Highway of Tears thrums with a sense of powerlessness.
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The coach's relative powerlessness makes coaches easy to dismiss and scapegoat.
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Power, and its corollary, corruption in all forms, thrive on powerlessness.
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The paranoid style, he noted, was typically a function of powerlessness.
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But this episode finds him in a rare state of powerlessness.
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All the uncertainty creates confusion, anxiety and a feeling of powerlessness.
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Yet the powerlessness of Capitol Hill is of lawmakers' own making.
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The photos of them doing so were a study in powerlessness.
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But it was Tuesday when their robes were stripped and powerlessness exposed.
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But in other cases the feeling of absolute powerlessness can corrupt absolutely.
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Powerlessness breeds mistrust, and a system based on mistrust benefits no one.
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But beyond that: Does Trump's cruelty engender a real feeling of powerlessness?
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It's important to remember that women, too, can contribute to our powerlessness.
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The powerlessness of outside investors was made clear right from the start.
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For players, the frustration is compounded by their powerlessness to prove themselves.
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I am lulled by a familiar powerlessness, muteness, that comes powerfully and unexpectedly.
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Sabbath delivered, providing the proletariat with a musical weaponry designed to combat powerlessness.
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The nightmare of Children of Men is one of unmoored powerlessness and unpredictability.
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A feeling like victory — if not over the pain, at least over powerlessness.
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He showed the 'power of powerlessness' Remember the Hollywood movie "Air Force One"?
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When African-Americans protest, they are expressing their powerlessness, they are punching upwards.
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The gameplay is unyieldingly anxious, perfecting the powerlessness of a surprise horde attack.
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"I understand the unwarranted shame, powerlessness & inability to blow the whistle," he tweeted.
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For now, their angry sense of powerlessness is aimed at the European Union.
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Feelings of isolation, powerlessness, and despair are the perennials of being a teenager.
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In a public video message, another protester described the demonstrators' sense of powerlessness.
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Her powerlessness sets the stage for what I most remember about this movie.
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Their willingness to chase bread crumbs is a symptom of ignorance and powerlessness.
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"The Mars Room" (Scribner) is a master class in the mechanisms of powerlessness.
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It's all darker and heavier, its critique of power and powerlessness more pointed.
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"Not knowing is vulnerability and powerlessness and that raises precaution instinctively," Mr. Ropeik said.
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Democrats face their powerlessness That was a key focus of Budget ranking member Sen.
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Sparse interaction gracefully implies your powerlessness against the nursery and your robotic, automated house.
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Coping mechanisms and a sense of powerlessness keep the scale of the problem hidden.
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In such circumstances many people respond to powerlessness with pointless acts of self-destruction.
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In a different way, the American election has been perverted by feelings of powerlessness.
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This lack of understanding leads to disappointment, a sense of betrayal, powerlessness and cynicism.
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" The manager recalling the meeting said "a sense of powerlessness was my deepest feeling.
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She turns powerlessness into attainment through an alchemy of the most morally dubious sort.
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Yet, even Ray's means of evasion emphasizes her powerlessness against the foes she encounters.
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Indeed, to ignore the feeling of political powerlessness is a major risk for Democrats.
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The article reignited the feelings of powerlessness she had experienced when the rape happened.
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The question is how far this sense of individual powerlessness has spread within Google.
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A sense of wary powerlessness hangs in the air, as palpable as the humidity.
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Raised under Israeli military occupation, I grew up accustomed to a feeling of powerlessness.
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The escalating war and ostensible powerlessness of its growing opposition was making me angrier.
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"Three Women" captures the pain and powerlessness of desire as well as its heady joys.
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"When people feel a sense of powerlessness, that tends to reinforce collective trauma," O'Neill says.
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They argue that a policeman's lot is "filled with uncertainty, hardship and feelings of powerlessness".
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Her powerlessness had become a new kind of power, an infinity lodged inside the finite.
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He was able to talk to the two polarities of powerlessness at the same time.
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Bill Gates' Firey Gauntlet renders our powerlessness literal, and I applaud it for doing so.
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Other research shows that conspiracy theories can be a coping mechanism for uncertainty and powerlessness.
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They conceded a strange new feeling of powerlessness in the face of Mr. Trump's ascendance.
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Can you think of anyone who pleads powerlessness one moment and demands fealty the next?
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He told a personal story to illustrate what he called the powerlessness of many consumers.
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That violence comes from feelings of shame or frustration, and the powerlessness that accompanies scarcity.
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An alcoholic in recovery for 27 years, she understands confusion and shame, powerlessness and anger.
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"It's a feeling of powerlessness," said Mr. Thibaut, who now raises sheep in a cooperative.
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Last week, her frustration with Waterford and with her own powerlessness came to the fore.
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Powerlessness reminds us of the lack of power and control experienced during the traumatic event.
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But it spends more time exploring the devastation and powerlessness that C.J. and her family feel.
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I've never been someone who has been immune to feelings of fear, or sadness, or powerlessness.
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That's because of Scaramucci's fundamental powerlessness: He wasn't hired to set policy or to enact change.
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She believes the powerlessness communities face from the fracking process is mirrored in women's everyday experiences.
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And they soon become locked in a cycle of illiteracy, poverty, ill health and, ultimately, powerlessness.
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In the end, the biggest obstacle to more Americans voting is their own sense of powerlessness.
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But it also opened me to the experience of bridging the gap between powerlessness and power.
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So freedom is a kind of power; but a certain kind freedom also comes with powerlessness.
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Ms. Spoor's tale reveals the powerlessness of patients and institutions in the face of resistant infections.
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That, and a word-drunk poetry that zigzags between extreme, giddy feelings of power and powerlessness.
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The acting here has less obvious brilliance, but it more powerfully articulates the theme of powerlessness.
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He would get the shakes, curl up in his bed, overcome with a sense of powerlessness.
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The message is also transfixing, channeling our worst fears about capitalism and our powerlessness over stuff.
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And the language of powerlessness, sacrifice and selflessness helps to keep women in a disempowered place.
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Resistance evokes the struggle against totalitarianism, conveying personal defiance and official powerlessness at the same time.
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Diop is unsparing in showing us the close coexistence of beauty and ugliness, power and powerlessness.
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One spankee might love the feeling of powerlessness, while another might be all about the physical sensation.
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This display seems to mirror her relative powerlessness in directing her career, something that affected her personally.
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Because epidemics feed feelings of powerlessness, politicians may feel they have to "do something," Yale's Omer said.
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Economic hardship creates feelings of powerlessness that draw people toward dominant, authoritarian leaders, says a new study.
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Initially, I was overwhelmed with my own powerlessness as a woman living in a patriarchal absolute monarchy.
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Those who don't share Trump's more corrosive views often wallow in the perception of their own powerlessness.
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But the other possibility, the blaming of other groups, is a reaction to a sense of powerlessness.
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Highly educated workers in other fields have also chafed at a growing sense of their own powerlessness.
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Hopelessness is a very human response when the feeling of persecution intersects with the feeling of powerlessness.
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And, in an object lesson on presidential powerlessness, there may be little he can do about either.
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We commiserated with a shared sense of powerlessness over Niger, just as we had back in 2013.
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What they share in common is a powerlessness totally at odds with Farrell's alpha males of yore.
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There is a powerlessness in his formulation, an impotent anger at the distant, impersonal bureaucracy he's criticizing.
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It replaces the lever-pulling scene, his initial idea to urge the player toward accepting his own powerlessness.
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But is it really possible to speak of the future (and art) only from a position of powerlessness?
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At 10 years clean, I lived in more pain, isolation, and powerlessness than I had with any drug.
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Then Kevin Smith took the lectern in Hall H, after the Twilight fest, and spoke truth to powerlessness.
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So what happens when a strain of conservatism built around the experience of powerlessness gains real political power?
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Political scientist Claude Ake argues that elections in Nigeria are "a metaphor for powerlessness and exploitation" of citizens.
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" Even amid a mix of other intense emotions, "powerlessness [is] in a central position that stimulates our tears.
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And yet a mood of fidgety powerlessness continues to accumulate, like an acid snowfall on our collective mind.
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Tiny hands evoke at once the diminishment of the presidential office and the powerlessness of a disenfranchised electorate.
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There's a powerlessness in the face of airlines that makes them different from other institutions Americans have soured on.
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If Neo, the film's hero, takes the blue pill, he will remain blissfully ignorant of the powerlessness of humans.
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It's equally tricky to situate Jhabvala in the binary of power and powerlessness favored by much post-colonial criticism.
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The findings of both books also reveal a common politics of powerlessness that transcends some of the other differences.
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While his speech is pitiful for its powerlessness, the anguish of the statues's shared experience of entrapment is moving.
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These simple steps can help protect you and those around you, and they can also reduce feelings of powerlessness.
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The results are what you see — loss of connection, a tendency to catastrophize, feelings of anger, isolation and powerlessness.
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Part of what it's seeing is the special burden that women bear and the particular powerlessness that they feel.
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Within just four performances, there were common threads in recognizing powerlessness and agency against dominant cultural and state forces.
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His loss of political rights, he said, is a constant reminder of his second-class status and his powerlessness.
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After the news of his murder was confirmed, shock, disbelief, powerlessness and a terrible feeling of loneliness overcame me.
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Arresting victims for failing to testify for the prosecution fosters a sense of powerlessness by further victimizing the person.
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It's a powerlessness we're not used to when we think we have every detail of a trip planned out.
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But adopting the cats has also, in part, been a response to a nagging sense of powerlessness, she said.
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"I guess you can say it shares the sense of powerlessness that the Hong Kong people feel," they said.
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Animal abuse and torture comes from ignorance, anger, and a sense of powerlessness, but primarily it stems from greed.
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The vast majority of Americans, according to almost every study on this issue, feel a high degree of powerlessness.
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And now, at at time when our rote response to anger is a feeling of powerlessness, that band is back.
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Importantly, this phenomenon is exclusive to jealousy; it isn't identified in envious people or those who harbor feelings of powerlessness.
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Rowling on her worst fear ROWLING: I think my worst fear, my personal worst fear, is powerlessness and small spaces.
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Trump is remarkable for the extent to which he has avoided taking responsibility for anything, insistent on his own powerlessness.
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But two characters later, Linda the novelist also invokes the family dog, this time as a figure of total powerlessness.
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"Victims can experience a strong sense of powerlessness and uncertainty in being able to establish what has occurred," Cross said.
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I wanted to fight back, take control of my own life, take control of that feeling of helplessness and powerlessness.
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Instead, the pandemic has exposed our long-standing national priorities and the resulting sense of powerlessness many of us feel.
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I had endured the pleasure of being an actor in New York — pretty much the definition of powerlessness and penury.
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Maybe it was thrilling to stage her own mistreatment, to take power over the situation of powerlessness she had imagined.
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Both are addressing real, acute problems — Britain's stagnant, unequal economy and people's sense of powerlessness and dislocation — with consoling fantasies.
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Rashad's relative powerlessness makes him sympathetic, and yet it is also sad — the best he can do is to survive.
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The obstacle, then, is misogyny, and her arc, her radical change, will presumably be a journey from powerlessness to power.
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Everyone has an opinion for me on imminent wars, unpredictable leaders, and the powerlessness of ordinary people to bring about change.
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The tension of cuteness, as Ngai has it, is that it presents an impression of powerlessness, while acutely manipulating the viewer.
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If you've worked long enough in corporate America, you know that the opposite of power is not powerlessness — it is emotion.
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Parker captures Jill's enraged powerlessness, her itchy need to assert herself in a menacing world, and the ruinous loyalty between siblings.
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They rage against their own powerlessness, insignificance, and the unlikelihood that a political punk album will make even a tiny difference.
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For a genre ostensibly rooted in powerlessness, horror rarely places the player into the role of somebody who is truly powerless.
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But he's crying as if to say there's nothing I can do but accept and admit the powerlessness of my situation.
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In the case of AYAOTD, it's the uncharted fears of youth, like rejection, isolation, neglect, powerlessness, and the loss of innocence.
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But to him, it captures the feelings of foreboding and powerlessness that seemingly everybody in Puerto Rico is dealing with now.
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"Even though I was 15 years old, the powerlessness in the face of injustice revolted me to the extreme," Nabourema says.
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It defines our sense of powerlessness, when all we possess is anger, which we direct equally to others and to ourselves.
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Evicted doesn't engage much with national electoral politics, although Desmond notes the sense of political powerlessness that comes with housing instability.
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Grief and rage and powerlessness brought with them the enlisted infantry soldier's timeless realization: The best guys always seem to lose.
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But what I find most interesting about that sequence is that it puts June in a position that emphasizes her powerlessness.
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Increasingly, researchers believe it's because of the effect on the body of the stress and feeling of powerlessness caused by racism.
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Depression and anxiety plague my patients because of the powerlessness they feel about the destruction of the America they hold dear.
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At the root of the resentment of immigrants, Muslims, cultural elites and others, she says, is a deep sense of powerlessness.
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"I think that women want to take out their frustration and their feeling of powerlessness," said Shannon Watts, the group's founder.
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Donald Trump's election has changed that, spurring progressives to search for ways to exert power in the face of terrifying powerlessness.
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Cynicism and powerlessness are the hallmarks of another form of digital life, an authoritarian one Americans should badly want to avoid.
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Ending one of the final episodes of a riveting techno-thriller on that note of powerlessness is a bold choice indeed.
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Rollbacks of EPA regulations under the Trump administration have made pollution worse, which can engender even more feelings of individual powerlessness.
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The photographer in this narrative is a stand-in for endless acts of feigned ignorance or feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy.
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One of the hardest parts of a tragedy as an onlooker is the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies watching the event unfold.
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Changes in sleep or diet, a feeling of powerlessness, and even physical symptoms can all be signs you are suffering with grief.
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It's a stunning meditation on loss, love, and our powerlessness in the face of time — for better or worse, life carries on.
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There's a moral authority in powerlessness -- being able to forgive, show mercy and "keep on keeping on" though the situation seems hopeless.
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More and more they came to the conclusion that only intervention from the federal government could free them from poverty and powerlessness.
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They also saw the importance of childhood as the source of the adult self, as a time of powerlessness, irrationality and imagination.
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The point is with so much powerlessness, I've tried to gain some control (which is bonkers as a concept to begin with).
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As the research above shows, a child carries that sense of powerlessness into adulthood as a gnawing anxiety that's never quite quelled.
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As she walked, she brainstormed about what more she could do to work through her feelings of powerlessness after the presidential election.
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I might suggest that, all the delightful magic aside, kids love Matilda because the story digs into familiar feelings from childhood, including powerlessness.
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But her records and tours (and how much she chooses to reveal of herself in them) give lie to that notion of powerlessness.
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Enraged with its powerlessness, it might be tempted by a political outlet -- a surge in the National Front vote come next year's election.
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The Melissa who first met Amit had recently been humbled by her powerlessness over heroin, and the help she'd needed to overcome it.
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African-American and native women are this country's first victims of rape and sexual assault due to the absolute powerlessness of their position.
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So too would the concerns he dwelled upon: loss of community, feelings of powerlessness, a sense that politics had been drained of meaning.
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For one thing, you can teleport freely around a level, instead of feeling the stress and powerlessness of being stuck in one place.
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According to Berlant, these suspicions manifested themselves in mundane ways: hoarding things or overeating might be attempts to overcome feelings of personal powerlessness.
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The right spent the last decade relegating Democrats to a position of powerlessness they hadn't known in nearly a century, and for what?
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In your own time, on your own terms, is a notion I cling to, when it comes to talking about experiences of powerlessness.
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If the police station set by Derek McLane is a bit grand in scale, it fills the Booth nicely and emphasizes Kendra's powerlessness.
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Many want to spend entire sessions discussing it: how to handle the stress and the feelings of fear, powerlessness, rage and frustrated paralysis.
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"We need to dissolve the pervasive powerlessness and resignation in our culture," he said, and that means asking more of people, not less.
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Feuchtwanger's émigrés in Paris, Mr. Al Kour and the members of the Open Border Ensemble share fundamental experiences of dislocation, insecurity and powerlessness.
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Grief and rage and powerlessness brought with them the enlisted infantry soldier's timeless realization: The best guys always seem to lose, he thought.
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The politics of hate have made immigrants the scapegoats for Americans' powerlessness, while providing cover for the already powerful to amass even more power.
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As for the increasing "mainlandisation" of Hong Kong politics, among ordinary Hong Kong folk it has fostered only cynicism and a sense of powerlessness.
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I know it was all stupid, and I was ashamed, and felt powerless in the face of the problem and ashamed of that powerlessness.
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For men, I think it's not financial stress as such; it's the feeling of powerlessness or humiliation that our culture attaches to financial stress.
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For us, it was about awareness of the police state and powerlessness of predominantly Black and brown people, the working class, and the disenfranchised.
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Adding to their sense of powerlessness, Ms. Freij's husband, Mohammed, is the deputy mayor of Kafr Qasim, an Arab town of 22,000 in Israel.
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"In mental illness you kind of have these destructive tendencies and these feelings of powerlessness... I think coding is the exact opposite," she said.
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That's why we don't speak up — for fear of suffering twice, and for fear of being labeled and characterized by our moment of powerlessness.
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Though we may have endured powerlessness at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, by speaking up, speaking out and speaking together, we regain that power.
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As the world now knows, these feelings of powerlessness, resentment and grievance are widespread, and as a candidate Mr. Trump tapped into them perfectly.
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In the middle of the worst wildfire season in memory in California, there is a great sense of powerlessness in the face of nature.
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A sense of powerlessness then breeds fear that we won't be able to handle the consequences of a terrible event, whether unemployment or sickness.
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They later reversed that decision, but the experience of powerlessness was enough to make her seek political asylum when she got to New York.
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The wage-based economy, on the other hand, fostered dependence, powerlessness and the privation that comes with depending on the boom-and-bust cycle.
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In his conversation with Kelly, Trump often seemed most honest when he was talking about his own struggles and his own feelings of powerlessness.
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It wasn't hard to see that the thread in everything young black voters were concerned about was the keen sense of powerlessness over political issues.
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Detention continues to blur the lines between reality and symbolism in its frequent use of flashbacks and non-linear level design to emphasize Ray's powerlessness.
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If we want to avert the sense of powerlessness among voters that fuels demagogy, the answer is not less democracy in America, but more. Opinion
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Though such verbal harassment is widely regarded as minor compared with physical intrusions such as groping, the victims report feelings of vulnerability, fear and powerlessness.
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"There is also an association with reduced sleep quality and negative psychological health such as depression, anxiety, insecurity, powerlessness and low self-esteem," Faghri added.
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But when the protesters were removed after 79 days of peaceful occupation, with no concession from the government, I experienced an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness.
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It is to shut down someone else's ability to make choices; it imprints on the victim's deepest lizard brain a sense of insecurity and powerlessness.
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It is hard to square the bright, woman sitting across the table from me with the abject powerlessness she describes experiencing only 10 years earlier.
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In Trump's world, the illusion of control is better than the acknowledgment of his relative powerlessness to force China (or American business) to his will.
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Otherwise, all it is doing is fomenting a sense of powerlessness and paranoia in the voting public, which could suppress engagement in the electoral process.
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They worked because of growing precariousness, inequality, impunity, alienation, globalization, tribalism, powerlessness, bombardment and cacophony — all the failures of democracies and bewilderments of digital disruption.
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And when the tragedy script plays out, many of us feel a profound powerlessness; every time a new disaster strikes, fewer of us speak up.
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The young cited the huge scale and timeline of the problem, a feeling of powerlessness, silence from the media, and preoccupation with more important issues.
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That brief moment of disorientation, followed by the realization that your body is about to hit the floor, fills you with the ultimate kind of powerlessness.
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The KRG's own repressive and anti-historical policy toward Assyrian heritage is itself part of broader trends — of co-option and persecution — that deepen Assyrian powerlessness.
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Perhaps it was in fact that fundamental powerlessness that initially drove us to art, to big cities, to larger worlds in which we could become ourselves.
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"Though we may have endured powerlessness at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, by speaking up, speaking out and speaking together, we regain that power," Nyong'o wrote.
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When I created that document, I was responding to a feeling of powerlessness, a feeling that official sanctioned avenues served to discredit and further victimize survivors.
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A sense of powerlessness simmered into frustration — the bitter realization that principles and pragmatism don't often dwell in harmony when it comes to race in America.
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But the modern enforcement regime makes a mockery of the law, as governments feign powerlessness against an entity they themselves created by granting it a charter.
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Mr. Friedman said the idea for the coalition came about in late October, as he and several fellow engineers sought to combat a feeling of powerlessness.
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Shah's claim of powerlessness gives no indication that the White House ethics office has tried any of these measures to get its former appointees to comply.
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We remind people of the power of collective action and we help people overcome the isolation and loneliness that they experience and that sense of powerlessness.
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These new tweets on DACA and NAFTA seem similarly all bark, no bite—the knee-jerk reaction of a Fox News viewer frustrated at his powerlessness.
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His music's tendency toward slow, spacious drift could reflect a prisoner's powerlessness or the lonely topography under the orange glow of sodium lamps on Sibley boulevard.
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They carried with them into power an abiding sense of powerlessness, a feeling that the very institutions they now controlled were alien and belonged to others.
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An entire genre of books and articles about the white working class chronicles its powerlessness in a culture that (at least superficially) prizes education and diversity.
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Though the G.O.P. tried repeatedly to halt Mr. Trump's advance in the primary, it failed, revealing both its powerlessness and its unpopularity with its own voters.
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Maybe what pundits dismiss as the impulsive rage of young college students is actually an expression of powerlessness, as they anticipate a future defined by indebtedness.
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I had recently learned about the concept of learned helplessness, where a history of avoiding a particular topic leads to a sense of powerlessness or aversion.
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It's a brilliant and funny poem about the power of feigned powerlessness, a subject at least as old as the shepherds and lasses of classical pastoral.
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Whether or not the organization has any supernatural elements — either as religion or as magic — members have a space to simply counter a sense of powerlessness.
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Thousands of miles away from any familiar environment, the rest of that trip was entirely surreal, and I was overwhelmed with a sense of total powerlessness.
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Former House Speaker John Boehner was cast aside because enough rank-and-file members were so frustrated by their own sense of powerlessness that they revolted.
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Shot in classic widescreen, Mr Cooper's film captures both the grandeur of nature and the smallness of these few characters, emphasising their powerlessness over the natural world.
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In "The Matrix", a sci-fi film, if Neo takes the blue pill, he will wake up in his bed, blissfully ignorant of the powerlessness of humanity.
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But a character this dynamic or malign would upset the design of a novel that wants to ape Beckett by turning history into powerlessness, longueurs and absences.
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Without bargaining power, men in the slaughterhouse's miasma were assigned simplified, repetitive tasks, to ensure their constant fungibility and low value, which in turn reinforced their powerlessness.
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The only way to describe the powerlessness I felt in that moment would be to compare it to the reason I was there in the first place.
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Conservatives, hoping to constrain the size of the welfare state, overstate how much control people have over their lives; liberals, hoping to expand it, overstate our powerlessness.
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But reflecting the relative powerlessness of Democrats, the document will then have to go to Trump who will have five days to register objections to declassifying it.
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Add up all of those feelings of anger and powerlessness, against the backdrop of a $24 billion company that wouldn't take it seriously for the longest time.
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Jo's anger — at her own powerlessness, at her culture's obsession with marriage, at others' assumptions about what shape her life should take — is legible; Marmee's is not.
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Emotionally, the volunteers said going back to their lives in New York was hard because there was a sense of powerlessness and a desire to do more.
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"I have always been perplexed by and obsessed with not only questions of powerlessness, but feeling like you have too much power," Roupenian told Elle last month.
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She once wrote, "My work deals with problems that are pre-gender," but her work is also insistently about the female body, memory, sexuality, female power and powerlessness.
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She soon learns that even in America, her powerlessness is reinforced and that her destiny might never be in her own hands, just because she is a woman.
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Areas that were once economically important languish as jobs are clustered in urban centers, creating a feeling of powerlessness as their populations grow older, poorer and less educated.
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A solution: Researchers found that when powerful people remembered an experience of powerlessness, it often helped them regain their ability to see from someone else's point of view.
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When I pulled it out of my closet, I would be reminded of him on top of me and the feeling of shame, guilt, and powerlessness I felt.
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They also expose the powerlessness of enslaved men, who are denied the traditional male prerogative of protecting — which is also to say of controlling, of owning — their wives.
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"They have not used chlorine themselves, but they have methodically contributed to the international community's powerlessness to prevent the use of chemical weapons by diplomatic means," he said.
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And maybe some of these guests were just looking for somewhere to place their anger at their problems, their sense of powerlessness, and their discomfort at social change.
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" What he feared most, he added, was that "Booming Technology" was having a deadening effect, leaving people with "a sense of impersonality together with a sense of powerlessness.
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She misses medicine and is certain she would have made a fantastic nurse, but she can't shake the feeling of powerlessness that permeated her time in Coos County.
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It can even be the impetus for the formation of new communities in which people share grievances and plans for retribution, relieving their sense of isolation or powerlessness.
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A police leader from the area, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the news media, expressed a sense of powerlessness.
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It's hard to imagine why a man with Kraft's resources would visit such a place unless the squalor, and the women's evident powerlessness, were part of the point.
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That this nerve-racking powerlessness could simply be bought off is among the most galling parts of the college admission scandal that exploded across the country last week.
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" Hundreds of stressful hours in preparation and rehearsal, and the feeling of powerlessness as he watched far-off games go wrong, had left him "physically and psychologically drained.
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That underneath the use of power lies a deep sense of powerlessness, and then you manipulate and you exploit the power that you have in order to cover that.
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It's humiliating and many survivors carry around a sense of powerlessness after the fact — just ask any of the women who have stepped forward with accusations about Donald Trump.
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And yet, the unprecedented mobility of the new millennium has led to feelings of powerlessness in economically deprived areas outside the big cities and provoked a paranoid political backlash.
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The show settles into these quiet moments of powerlessness, which are enhanced by the incredible chaos elsewhere — impossible, frenetic action and outlandish, cartoonish distortions of character design and movement.
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It has a similar effect to standing in the ocean on an angry day and feeling relief in your sudden powerlessness as it batters you with wave after wave.
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Despite having written on and challenged the FDA's "gay blood ban", I never felt the full impact of its discrimination or the sense of powerlessness it imparts until Orlando.
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The study blamed many factors: surgeons who resent the implication that they may make dangerous mistakes, lax enforcement by hospital administrators and the powerlessness of nurses in some cultures.
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Indeed, Europe's relative powerlessness in preserving a deal in which it is deeply invested has only increased its leaders' fury at the Trump administration's decision to scrap the accord.
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The new new world The outbreak has exposed the powerlessness of private charities, civic groups and others who could help the effort but whom the Communist Party considers rivals.
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There's a power in their visibility and financial advantages that seems inherently at odds with the powerlessness the criminal justice system imposes on poor and Black and brown people.
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A sense of powerlessness is feeding the fear that is prompting investors to dump anything risky, which is in turn damaging economic prospects and reinforcing fear — a feedback loop.
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And that afternoon, as I walked out the restaurant doors, walked out of a life marked by degradation, powerlessness and unshaped identity, I made a silent promise to never return.
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I felt sorrow for all the suffering, fear for the pain yet to come to my brothers, and a deep sense of powerlessness at the weighty inevitability of it all.
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It is perhaps in these moments of powerlessness, during which our capacity for action is hindered, that art must shy away from present images and we must turn to poetry.
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Yet I still feel an abject sense of powerlessness, a feeling that, in the past, led me to seek some semblance of control via the excessive ingestion of inebriating liquid.
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Above all else, these candidates articulated a realistic theory of change, one that made their policy proposals more believable and spoke to the sense of powerlessness most Americans feel today.
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It resulted in decreased Democratic turnout, a crucial drop in the bankrolling of Democratic candidates and, more subtly but no less significantly, a debilitating sense of powerlessness among union members.
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The scene at the Security Council on Thursday underscored a growing sense of powerlessness and exasperation at the United Nations as the Syrian civil war reaches new levels of violence.
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But the people most affected by these proposed changes — residents in places like Mindong — say they feel a sense of powerlessness, as if awaiting a storm that they cannot control.
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The powerlessness and humiliation that so many women in the film and TV industry have been struggling with feels like an ever more urgent rallying cry for a progressive future.
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Investment in long-term development at the local level to address extreme poverty, hunger and powerlessness are critical to addressing factors that drive insecurity in much of the developing world.
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His chapter about the AIDS crisis, which tested the mettle of many physicians — they were at once afraid for their health and demoralized by their powerlessness — is moving and humane.
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The uniformed woman's unremitting commentary on these events is so unpleasant that I realize she is half-demented with what would seem to be the combination of power and powerlessness.
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When a girl becomes pregnant or gives birth, her health, education, earning potential — and entire future — may be in jeopardy, trapping her in a lifetime of poverty, exclusion and powerlessness.
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Now the last speeches of the day were being made, the reporters had mostly gone and McConnell sat in his office, reciting an unfamiliar tale: that of his own powerlessness.
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Just like in the early days of hip hop in the Bronx, rappers in the poor neighborhoods of Manila draw from their background -- its poverty, powerlessness and arbitrary injustices -- for inspiration.
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But the dust would eventually settle, and the feelings of powerlessness would subside—and I'd realize there was an entire universe out there, waiting for me to make the next move.
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You find an explanation, whether scientific or religious or something else altogether, and you try to fill in the gap between your need for control and your complete and utter powerlessness.
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Many more police were in attendance than had been on duty in the area on the night of the mass assaults, when the relative powerlessness of the cops was heavily criticized.
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She screamed for them to stop, screaming at Peter, screaming at the unbearable agony of all of this, at the malignance of Caroline's disease, at Grace's own terrible sense of powerlessness.
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What we can do is raise our own level of discussion so that the internet valley between us and them is so vast that they feel nothing but exclusion and powerlessness.
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Plus I've watched movies in cars, buses and trains dozens of times and don't ever recall my powerlessness manifesting in tears, especially during a dispassionate biopic of a Silicon Valley executive.
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The feeling here, for me, was that Pop Art's corporate model was the art movement that started narrowing the noose of powerlessness for most intelligent and sensitive artists and art critics.
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Survival horror games often focus on vulnerable, ordinary characters and induce a sense of paranoid powerlessness, stripping down interface elements or tweaking camera movements to imitate a frail human body's motion.
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It's also crucial when faced with a sense of social powerlessness that can set in after one too many stories about, say, skulduggery in Ukraine, or white nationalists on the march.
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The anthropologist Alcinda Honwana has observed that young combatants, in the face of pervasive murder, "vividly experienced their own powerlessness—except as killers," and Darwinian logic may have played a role.
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Since even the parents of the victims are eager to hide their sons' suffering, Johanna is left to wrangle with her own powerlessness in the face of institutional influence and might.
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"It's a story about women to living below the poverty line in America and particularly, investigating that relationship between powerlessness and agency and how active these women still were," DaCosta tells Refinery29.
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Watching Ford and other protesting survivors be heard then ignored by the Senate on TV and on social media beckoned a sense of powerlessness, one that felt all too familiar for many.
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But half of the players in Here Is My Power Button are living out more of a powerlessness fantasy as they try to forge relationships with people who can easily break them.
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Not unlike Donald Trump's victory four months later, the result spoke of social disparities, of a powerlessness felt by many and a distain for aloof elites in a seemingly distant capital city.
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I didn't realize that the feeling of powerlessness on the street was the same one I had when I said no to that boy when I was 14, and he didn't comply.
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Feeling as though I couldn't get through the next 30 minutes of consciousness without drinking more, after I had already drank more than I could keep track of, I experienced true powerlessness.
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Our issues with the US weren't nearly as dire as other people's, but there was a growing sense of powerlessness and polarization going on there that we needed to get away from.
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That it's a consumerist shitshow that uses our powerlessness against the effects of oxytocin to convince us to buy polyester-filled stuffed animals that were stitched together by child slaves in Malaysia.
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While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has somehow managed to throw his hands up in the air and claim powerlessness without suffering publicly, House Democrats have been more visible in the fight.
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If the classic conspiracy theorist was said to be motivated by distrust of authority and a feeling of social powerlessness, the ambivalent one can be animated by an even simpler impulse: boredom.
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Outside a government complex in Tel Aviv where Netanyahu said he was scrapping the deal, several African men wrapped themselves in chains in a protest that put their sense of powerlessness on display.
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Defendant regime, the courts had for centuries slighted crimes against women, whose powerlessness before the state—in the form of an all-male bench and bar—really did rival that of criminal defendants.
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The patience required to bear the infinitude of the small indignities visited on Puerto Ricans by institutions is partly a reflection not of docility or of moral conformity, but of acquiescence to powerlessness.
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That powerlessness you mentioned... There has been much talk about the cynicism of young people with regards to the current political situation, and you mentioned it a bit in your talk at Glastonbury.
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Further legal complications arise, and the narrator's sympathies begin to shift yet again, as at last he confronts the powerlessness and pain of his friend's accuser, "poor Julia," as he now calls her.
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Thirteen states passed red flag laws just since 2018, after a mass school shooting by an unstable Florida teen highlighted law enforcement's powerlessness to take guns away from people who shouldn't have them.
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The feeling of dread that we now have in the face of the news cycle and the prospect of a Trump victory is intended to induce powerlessness in those who would oppose Trump.
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Upholding this cliché only serves to protect men in these positions who do commit these acts and reinforces the powerlessness of fans, specifically female fans, and how unsafe they are in this industry.
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Viewers, along with the terrorized family, are subjected to escalating feelings of powerlessness throughout the film, while Haneke uses disconnected violence and deliberate cinematic manipulation to connect his story to modern societal decay.
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Falling in love with Jon—and watching Alex fall in love with Jon, too—taught me about jealousy and acceptance, about what it meant to truly let go and the true nature of powerlessness.
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"I thought it was more important to be the symbol that people can recognize to put the face to voicelessness and powerlessness that sexual assault leaves us with," Union said of her silent role.
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Whether traced to declining credibility of persons in authority, the growing power of money and corporations throughout society, or feelings of powerlessness, a generalized lack of faith in our bedrock institutions has been deepening.
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Maybe "UnREAL" played this card too soon for us — or Rachel — to be attached to Brandi, or maybe Rachel's just numbed by her own powerlessness, but Brandi's breakdown happens without Rachel batting an eye.
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The European Union, whose most enthusiastic proponents once saw it as replacing the United States as a center of soft power and dynamism in the 21st century, is now wallowing in uncertainty and powerlessness.
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The perseverance to live fully with a profound disability comes, I think, in part from honestly facing your own powerlessness and frailty, and recognizing how much worse things have been and could still be.
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European leaders' powerlessness to counter American sanctions has only widened a divide over a host of issues including NATO, immigration and relations with Russia that could undercut current efforts to defuse tensions over trade.
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"The powerlessness Arpaio's feeling — well, now the shoe's on the other foot, isn't it?" said Alejandra Gomez, executive director of the Arizona Center for Empowerment, a group that supports immigrant rights and public education.
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We were so accustomed to coping with the powerlessness and anger of a non-guilty verdict or light sentencing that we didn't even dare let ourselves imagine what a different outcome would feel like.
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If voters feel that institutions are not responsive to them, and they have no say in how those institutions are run, powerlessness and resentment have a tendency to erupt in unpredictable and destructive ways.
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Each short section leaves a lone dancer to begin or catalyze the next one, and images of solitude and abandonment abound; so do occasional tableaus that suggest war, crowds of refugees, horror, despair and powerlessness.
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In a world increasingly concerned with disparities between the haves and have-nots, the voters that chose Brexit and elected President Trump are expressing deep feelings of powerlessness in a world dominated by wealthy elites.
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Similarly, to have a body, especially as a woman, means to experience that space between power and powerlessness, as determined by the template on which the world has been built: a cisgender white man's body.
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"At that point, what you're looking at is this sense of powerlessness all around about the ability of any institution to mediate not just a political conflict, but a conflict of fundamental values," she said.
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Twenty-two pages into the hand-scribbled journal found in Dylann S. Roof's car — after the assertions of black inferiority, the lamentations over white powerlessness, the longing for a race war — comes an incongruous declaration.
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Which is to say that he is able to plumb the daily anxiety and powerlessness that many people of color feel every day of their lives, and he does this through nuance rather than didacticism.
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Given the powerlessness I felt as a teenager in the aftermath of Columbine, I am in awe of the strength, maturity, and determination exhibited by students across the country in the weeks following the Parkland shooting.
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It said the epidemic's spread among adolescent girls is being fueled by early sex, including with older men, forced sex, powerlessness in negotiating around sex, poverty and lack of access to confidential counseling and testing services.
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It came for me from a place of frustration and powerlessness and, really, fear about how to protect myself and about how to protect my colleagues and the women around me from this kind of violence.
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By December 2015, when a grand jury declined to charge the Cleveland police officer responsible for killing 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the harsh reality of this work hit me especially hard — the weariness, hopelessness, powerlessness.
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One of his fellow caucus members, Jimmy Van Bramer, also a Democrat from Queens, recalled "a real profound and deep feeling of exclusion and powerlessness" at being barred from the parade for the last 25 years.
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After they were ousted from government jobs and from the military by the post-Saddam Hussein government, their powerlessness and rage gave rise to Sunni militant movements like Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State.
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I worry about health effects but try not to drive myself or my family too crazy about it, balancing that with fighting feelings of powerlessness that can breed apathy, and for now not moving to Wyoming.
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These words, in a sense, exemplify the brutal cycle of the Middle East tragedy: Injustice leads to powerlessness, to frustration to rage, and finally to acts of violence that undercut any attempts at peace or reconciliation.
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The main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who was barred from last weekend's election, has said that his biggest enemy is not Mr Putin and his cronies, but the debilitating conviction among ordinary Russians of their own powerlessness.
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But now the conservatism of California — the conservatism of isolation and powerlessness, the discourse that comes from people who believe their views will never become the view — is one of the most powerful forces in American politics.
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Even the rare good things that happen to Amy and Jordan are unfair caprices of fate; the only real way to cope with powerlessness in the face of disaster, Beyer suggests, is to giggle at its absurdity.
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But they outnumber Democrats on the way out because, generally speaking, they assume that Republicans will remain in the House minority and they're exhausted by the tandem experiences of powerlessness and answering for Trump's chaos and cruelties.
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That's a big part of what I was interested in while making this film: thinking about the paralysis we feel, the powerlessness we feel, the reasons we can't seem to do anything while our planet is collapsing.
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As someone who had experienced the forced deprivations of the closet, he was perfectly suited to meet sensitive children on their own ground of powerlessness and unbelonging, and to show them how such feelings can be mastered.
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The apparent powerlessness of those who suffer was also brought home to me in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, where Tamil communities dispossessed of their land by the military decades ago still live in the most basic and deplorable conditions.
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"Eating disorder patients may take the anger and powerlessness they feel towards others, or towards the world, and turn it against themselves," says Nina Savelle-Rocklin, a psychoanalyst and author of Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders.
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The psychologist Kenneth Clark's 1965 indictment of the "Dark Ghetto" as the result of an "institutionalization of powerlessness" through redlining and white control anticipated urban uprisings from the mid-60s up to Ferguson, but it gained little traction.
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I have to be careful about what I allow into my head, though of course sometimes I have no choice—as is the case with the river horse—and then I want to shriek with sadness and powerlessness.
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Globalization has reduced the job market in the West, and induced a feeling of powerlessness amongst the general public; immigrants have been turned into scapegoats for this situation, and many parties have made political capital out of this.
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I have learned from my father that when a patient is in withdrawal (especially from opioids or benzodiazepines, which reduce anxiety or sleep problems), he or she will experience intense physical symptoms, coupled with feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness.
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In late-nineteenth-century Europe, as women were resisting their social and sexual powerlessness, a new type of madwoman emerged: diagnosed as a hysteric, she was sexually erratic and outrageous, unleashing qualities that a lady was supposed to suppress.
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Treuer's suggestion, for example, that Indian peoples have been infected by colonialism with a disease "of powerlessness … more potent than most people imagine" could be extended to include the subordination experienced by other gendered, racialized and historically disempowered communities.
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In these stories and others (because there were seriously seven or eight major storylines this season, and outlining all of them would take all day), The Magicians grappled with the feelings of powerlessness that can stem from grief or trauma.
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There would be little to lose now from taking a tougher line on Iran, given Europe's powerlessness in the face of U.S. extra-territorial sanctions on European companies and Iran's own more aggressive posture, including impounding a British-flagged tanker.
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" Although her role is small and comes with no lines, Union said, "I thought it was more important to be the symbol that people can recognize to put the face to voicelessness and powerlessness that sexual assault leaves us with.
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Throughout the week Mr. Erdogan issued a flurry of statements to Turkey's obedient media outlets, accusing Israel of genocide — "What Israel is doing is genocide" — and railing at the powerlessness of the United Nations to take any stand against Israel.
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The modern condemnation of religion has followed the Marxian rebuke that religion is an opiate administered indirectly by state power in order to secure a docile populace — one that accepts poverty and political powerlessness, in hopes of posthumous supernatural rewards.
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"Research has been conducted talking to people with these open wounds and this highlights the shock and anguish that these wounds can cause people, as well as the feeling of frustration and powerlessness felt when living with them," Norman said.
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In his unusually fine book, Mr. Weidman keeps striking the theme of powerlessness in the lives of the assassins, whether it is the result of unvarnished mental illness or of a poverty so entrenched in American life it seems punitive.
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Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies pushed further into Syrian territory on Thursday, opening up a new front in the eight-year-old Syrian civil war, and exposing Europe's powerlessness and inability to influence the direction of the conflict.
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The feelings of powerlessness, estrangement, loneliness, and anger created or exacerbated by the information age are so general it can be easy to think they are just a state of nature, like an ache that persists until you forget it's there.
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Syria, in particular, with its seven-year long civil war, a battleground for almost all the major world and regional powers with a seemingly invincible dictator, Bashar al-Assad, at the helm induces in us a very particular sense of powerlessness.
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The anger is certainly justified, but the powerlessness is not – there are a number of ways families can help stop ongoing exposure to lead and reduce children's blood lead levels over time through nutrition, filtered water, and removing household toxins.
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But nearly all "resistance witches" share a passion for the collective aspect of their practice, allowing them to channel feelings of powerlessness about the current administration, while reviving a sense of community and ritual many report missing from their daily experience.
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Maybe a black woman who has swallowed the memories of a century of injustice and persecution and struggle, who has (through an egg and a pill) literally taken into her body both the ultimate power and the ultimate understanding of powerlessness.
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Anderson not only reflects on her own rape at the age of 13, she also examines an adolescence and adulthood marked by her veteran father's PTSD and her mother's powerlessness over the situation, resulting in her parents' shared struggle with alcohol.
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Perhaps that derived from the ominous sense that a terrible history was being made; it could also have stemmed from the fraught tension between the rage, disbelief, and powerlessness people brought into the room and the refuge and even enjoyment they found there.
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He feels for the people forced to live out here, their powerlessness, the anguish of not being able to provide for their children, "They need to live, they need to find work, to live in peace," he gesticulates into the rear-view mirror.
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I think optimism is refusing to look at the worst case scenarios, pessimism is believing in our powerlessness, which lets us off the hook, while hope is looking at the worst case scenarios and being realistic about what we can do about it.
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For the audience, the real horror behind this tech isn't a flame war, or even a troll taken to the darkest endpoint—it's the audience realizing their own powerlessness in a government system that routinely uses third-party tech to betray their privacy.
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The book starts out strong, as she breaks fear down into first principles in order to show how feelings of insecurity and powerlessness can render an otherwise useful emotion like anger, or a desire for fairness, into something more vengeful and poisonous.
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And though the doctor explains that her clinic employs a "religiously neutral" modification of the 12-step template — one in which addicts express powerlessness over the three nouns that make up the play's title — she nevertheless (Emma notices witheringly) wears a crucifix.
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And yet, immersing myself in Berg's story of an impoverished, delusional soldier forced by superior officers to perform humiliating tasks for menial pay, a man driven to murder and self-destruction by feelings of powerlessness, I couldn't help thinking about Mr. Levine's accusers.
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If we had done more to blunt the power of oligopolies and strengthen the power of workers, and if we had held our banks accountable, the sense of powerlessness might not be so pervasive and Americans might have greater trust in our institutions.
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Look closely at her speech on Saturday, and you'll see embedded in it — in ways she may not even realize — a coded message to get on with it and a palpable discomfort (perhaps an understandable one) with her own powerlessness over these huge emotions.
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However, Bey's admission that there was perhaps something in her blood, the very thing that sustains her, implicates a powerlessness that she shares with every last one of us: a history that she has no control over, one full of broken relationships and trauma.
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That sense of unfairness, powerlessness, that has helped fuel some of the protests we&aposve seen in places like Baltimore and Ferguson and too many places in this country black boys and black men, Latino boys, Latino men experience being treated differently by law enforcement.
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I began to use intelligence and words as my own version of Sectumsempra, slicing down my perceived enemies As a kid, I did not have dark magic to turn to when the feelings of powerlessness threatened to consume me to a point beyond repair.
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Anxiety thrives at the convergence of powerlessness and uncertainty, and 2016 served us a large dose of both of those, while social media and the 24-hour news cycle made it difficult to take a break from significant and particularly anxiety-inducing world events.
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But the things that neoliberalism has trouble seeing are, at the present, far more consequential: deep inequalities, accompanied by a sense of powerlessness, of being left behind by a global system that operates with no regard for the interests or voice of the majority.
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I have tried so hard not to rule them from the baleful matriarchal domestic throne — not to make an awful kind of power out of powerlessness — that I sometimes wonder whether I have done something much worse, which is make myself of no importance.
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Some of the city's pro-Beijing business elite who have come to depend on China for their success also began to ask whether it was time to revive discussions about political reform that would address concerns from protesters about their sense of powerlessness in politics.
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Waters — played in the original and in the film by the hair-raising Adolph Caesar — is part sadist, part eugenicist, and so determined to avenge his own powerlessness as a black man that he is willing to destroy other black men to do it.
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But the power of the paparazzi in the '00s, and the relative powerlessness of the stars, drove home a difficult truth: No matter how much distance between us and the stars, the intimacy we crave has very real psychological costs, especially when extracted without consent.
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That feeling of powerlessness over a child's fate was a dominant — and at times, laughable — element of "True Detective" last season, when Colin Farrell's absentee dad made several heavy-handed attempts to have a relationship to his son but often erupted into anger and violence.
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For example, if you're into the feeling of powerlessness, you and your partner would want to focus on setting up a "scene" (a pre-planned BDSM encounter) or role-playing, and the actual spanking "could be really light, and you'd get your needs met," Devlin says.
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Characters find a way toward closure, then fall away from the story as those who continue to struggle with their powerlessness attempt to forcefully attach meaning to their lives — to the degree that one character starts to kinda maybe think he's the second coming of Jesus.
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It's clear, at least in here, that the process of campaigning for president is one of acknowledged powerlessness: reporters buzzing in swarms, waiting for a press bus or a quote; candidates waiting for votes, for campaign donations, for endorsements; voters waiting for someone to show up.
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Listen to MRAs discuss, say, sexual assault allegations (which they usually claim are fabricated by feminists to hound men from their jobs), and you realize what they're really trying to do is engender a sense of powerlessness, and a feeling that this could happen to you.
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At times, in the shifting ground between the hostages and their captors, we can feel Mr. Weitz reaching for something akin to what Bruno Barreto achieved with his 1998 drama "Four Days in September," a subtle probe of the dynamics of bargaining and coercion, privilege and powerlessness.
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Woolf herself described the novel as "fun" and "fantasy," but its bladed politics gleam all the more brilliantly today: It is a study of gender roles, of power and powerlessness, grounded in a character constrained neither by sex nor mortality — the dream of a life outside history.
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The research also noted that after experiencing trauma like combat or sexual abuse, many veterans took their masculine traits to an even greater extreme, presumably in an effort to counter the very non-traditionally masculine feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness that traumatic experiences can bring on.
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Each person we spoke to possessed only the power to refer us to another person of equal or greater powerlessness until we found ourselves facing a manager named Mike, who looked fifteen, his blond hair long and angular on top, the sides of his head freshly shaved.
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"Basically, financial institutions are all trapped with a feeling of powerlessness when dealing with defaulting big state-owned enterprises," said one manager who works for a national institution and who traveled with a group of creditors to the northern region to urge authorities to produce a debt-workout plan.
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Mr. Trump's doggedness, and his chastisement of his own aides, contributed to a sense of powerlessness among Republicans who said they increasingly saw no way to influence Mr. Trump's behavior or to convince him that his actions could hurt the party in competitive House, Senate and governor's races.
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That song is about powerlessness to me, and also about the hypocrisy of the powerful; the more powerful folks in the story see The StoneThrowers as savage and brutal even though they do much less total harm throwing stones than the powerful do with their stronger, more sophisticated weapons.
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I see an empty stretcher to the right of me, and want to lie down in it and forget about all those red-hatted gorgons downtown and tune out these loud seizure guitar riffs that make me more and more furious, but only incubate a mounting sensation of powerlessness.
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"My instructions to the guards, as documented by recordings of guard orientation, were that they could not hit the prisoners but could create feelings of boredom, frustration, fear and a sense of powerlessness — that is, 'we have total power of the situation and they have none,'" he wrote.
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To support her argument, Ms. Whitaker cavalierly claims that one of the 12 steps is "admitting powerlessness" but conveniently fails to explain that the step is actually "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable," which changes the meaning of the phrase entirely.
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More than anything, Making a Perfect Donut is about contradictions: between the desire for art to represent an effective form of protest and the reality of its ultimate powerlessness in the face of larger structural issues; between the absurdity of Kyun-Chome's project and the gravity of the underlying situation.
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"There's an apocalyptic spirit, a sense that 'it's five to midnight'," says Rathje, who sees parallels with "prepper" scenes and the sovereign citizens militia movements in the U.S. While the mantle of victimhood that Reichsbuerger ideology bestows can initially feel empowering, it inevitably condemns its adherents to powerlessness, said Rathje.
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ISTANBUL — An Istanbul courtroom opened a window on the state of American-Turkish relations as Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee of the United States Consulate in Istanbul, went on trial in one of several cases that showcase American powerlessness in the face of the intransigence of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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" In fact, Douglas argues in one of her own papers that exposure to conspiracy theories "increases feelings of powerlessness, which in turn leads to a variety of maladaptive behavioural intentions," such as "withdrawal from politics, a decreased willingness to reduce one's carbon footprint, or a decreased willingness to have a child vaccinated.
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That may be because the political powerlessness of women over the course of human history cannot be exaggerated, and the ways in which this has been brought home to every individual woman — even those who acquired a temporary, tentative hold on power — have altered all women's lives, accomplishments, and expression in every field.
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But while his film is grimmer and more harrowing than anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's offering up a fantasy just as clearly as any superhero wish-fulfillment power trip: the fantasy of being a hero to some, of going from powerlessness to power, of being feared and beloved at the same time.
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EU citizens living in Britain, as well as Brits living in Europe, will now have to wait, as the vote will trigger at least two years of divorce proceedings with the EU. Among EU citizens living in Britain, only Irish nationals were permitted to vote in the referendum, giving Europeans a sense of powerlessness.
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"As a result of discovering that Mr. Mathews was tracking his whereabouts by placing a tracker on Ms. Reveles' vehicle, Mr. Simmons and Ms. Reveles have suffered significant mental anguish, including, without limitation, anxiety, feelings of powerlessness, frustration and humiliation in discovering that they were being tracked, and their privacy invaded," the lawsuit states.
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"It's hard to understand how he could fall for IS." Mr Amin has set his charge a reading list, which includes "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie, a native-american writer whose protagonists struggle with a sense of powerlessness and alienation in a white society, and some works by Michel Foucault, a French post-modernist.
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Though the plan did not pass muster with the state legislature, it created the opening for a summer of outrage from members of the Asian community, some of it fueled by legitimate grievances (a "profound sense of powerlessness" as Jiayang Fang put it in The New Yorker), some by resentment toward other minority groups.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Revolving around the desire for an ever more intimate, ever more sensuous relation to objects already regarded as familiar and unthreatening, cuteness is not just an aestheticization but an eroticization of powerlessness, evoking tenderness for "small things" but also, sometimes, a desire to belittle or diminish them further.
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Feelings of powerlessness, guilt, and fear — plus real threats of violence, criminalization, and home loss faced by many poor people of color — conspire to push those on the ground to fight with and avoid one another, rather than working together to resist developers, unfavorable city agreements, and the racist policing and incarceration that are driving so much gentrification.
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The humiliation his wife puts her debilitated husband through (dressing him in garish women's clothing and makeup) derives from personal — and real — grievances, but it may also be seen as a symbol of the powerlessness being felt by middle-aged white men, for whom death rates have been increasing after years of decline, to the bafflement of researchers.
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A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around, whether the powerlessness in question is that of a victim or, as in the title story of "The Doll-Master," that of someone who is unable to stop doing harm to others: Obsession can be a kind of vulnerability, too.
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Through a deeper understanding of her mother's powerlessness and rage, Albertine eventually returns to her original loyalty to her mother, whose life before her marriage to Viv's father included losing custody of her first child from an earlier marriage, a wrenching experience that helps explains the lengths to which she was willing to go to keep Viv and her sister.
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You're obviously in control of it in your own mind, but in those moments when you lose control of it publicly, and people say things that are made up, or are just gross distorted versions of the story of the things that you've done — not having that control over how you are imagined is a feeling of victimization, it's a feeling of powerlessness.
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C.C. has no answer to the goombahs who make him a lowball offer for his golden goose, so he salves his ego by bragging about his business acumen to the other pimps and exorcises his powerlessness by treating Lori to one last desultory sex session — one in which he treats her like a cheap prostitute, rather than the queen worthy of an extremely well-done porterhouse steak.
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Her work is political because it samples moments of the real world, including recordings from the television, from the police, from the streets in which we live—whether we like it or not, whether we ignore it or not, What makes Al Qadiri's work so exquisite, and so terribly important, is that it is beautiful and, at the same time, it speaks directly of war and powerlessness, of inequality and voicelessness.
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Whether that's Elliot Alderson on Mr. Robot blaming faceless globalism for his sense of powerlessness, or BoJack Horseman looking for any scapegoat he can find instead of confronting the roots of his depression, or Chiron from Moonlight repressing his feelings for the person he wants to be with because of the prejudices surrounding him — 2016 has been rife with characters struggling to be themselves in the face of pressures big and small.
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In hindsight, the early days of the Willkommenskultur was more about us than them, providing Germans with relief on three fronts: relief from a sense of powerlessness amid such human misery in the Middle East at a time when Germany was finally growing comfortable with its powerful position in Europe; relief from the contemporary belief, born from the Greek debt crisis, that Germans were hardhearted; and relief from the historic suspicion that others viewed Germans as a dangerous, xenophobic people.
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The political role, and the social duty, of the artist; the attempt to unite the aesthetic with the political, and her understanding that the aesthetic was political; the link between mind and body; the experience of power and powerlessness; the ways pain is inflicted, regarded, and represented; the ways images, language, and metaphor create—and distort—whatever people call reality: these questions were refracted, and then literally dramatized, during the nearly three years she spent coming and going from the worst place in the world.
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From the first moments of deliberation, the jury is divided precisely along gender lines: The men want first-degree murder, they fret over the apparent sissifying of father-son relationships in the world, and they complain about how their own dads didn't go to enough of their ball games; the women want voluntary manslaughter, they defend the rights and powerlessness of victims, and they point out that many of the men's arguments have nothing to do with the burdens of proof in this case.
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