The powerlessness of the pike, however, was most strikingly displayed at a battle in which the fortune of the day had not been favourable to Spain.
Leopold the Proud, remembering no doubt the powerlessness of the horsemen which had been shown at Laupen, made his knights dismount, as Edward of England had done with such splendid results thirty years earlier.
Granson was for the Swiss only one more example of the powerlessness of the best cavalry against their columns: of infantry fighting there was none at all.
It was a matter of weeks, this mood of indignant despair, of baffled powerlessness in face of reality.
It was a mistake, because it illustrated his lack of initiative and his powerlessness to strike out a fresh path.
Nevertheless Caesar was a great loser, when his rival exchanged his former powerlessness for an important command.
And when they realized their powerlessness to achieve their purpose, they arose to plot against Him.
In the very next year Carlos was made to feel his powerlessness in the face of the arrogant superiority asserted by the Inquisition.
Such a forsaking of all that we have in the recognition of our own poverty and powerlessness brings into the field an Ally for our reinforcement that has more than the twenty thousand that are coming against us, and will make us strong.
We see in Herod an example of the utter powerlessness of such partial convictions and reformation.
Their powerlessness rent their hearts, they were both so frantic and so woeful that their grandmother strove to calm them.
They felt their powerlessness to struggle against these convulsions of nature, superior to human strength.
Glenarvan was forced to acknowledge hispowerlessness to pursue this work of mercy.
Moreover, the powerlessness and poverty of the young monarch necessarily involved those of his follower; and thus both by inclination and by interest De Luynes was bound to share the antipathies of his master.
But the sense of powerlessness was intolerable; he lowered his rapier for a word more--a word to raise his own self-esteem.
The man whose figure stood out like a black shadow against the distant blue of the hills; and as he realized the fine fibre of his enemy, a sense of powerlessness to touch, to harm him, kept Roshan motionless.
The English were made to understand the weakness and the uselessness of what they asked; for the powerlessness of our States- General was explained to them, and they saw at once how vain their help would be, even if accorded.
Master as he might be of his words and of his features, he profoundly felt the powerlessness to resist his enemies that he fell into day by day.
Power which has greatly suffered both in deed and in thought is better than powerlessness which only meets with kind treatment"--such was the Greek way of thinking.
Some day the Italians will be taught, by a rude lesson, the weakness of mercenary armies, and the pitiful powerlessness of cavalry and artillery.
The more he forced his will to find a solution, the more he was conscious of his own powerlessness and the profundity of the abyss which must divide them.
It is not a little remarkable that this signal recognition by the Fourth General Council of the Roman Pontiff's authority coincided in time with the utter powerlessness to which Rome as a city was reduced.
The sign of His matchless Revelation as created by Him and imprinted upon the realities of all beings, is none other but their powerlessness to know Him.
All beings acknowledge their powerlessness to praise Thee as beseemeth Thy station.
Powerlessness is the normal state not only of this but of every organism--of every organism apart from its Environment.
But now he understands both--the void in his life, the powerlessness of his will.
What was there before me in all that scene that did not tell of the power of faith - of the grace of God - of the safety and strength of His children - of the powerlessness of their enemies.
Felicite raised her head, feigning surprise; and with a gesture of complete powerlessness she said: "I am a fool in these matters.
He divined the powerlessness of the Legitimists and Orleanists, without clearly distinguishing, however, what third thief would come and juggle the Republic away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "powerlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: disability; impotence; ineffectiveness; lassitude; softness; weakness
