Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the monarchy should go. Sure, it's outdated and occasionally embarrassing. The recent Diana-madness bordered on the shameful. It may be argued that it is wrong to have any hereditary political office, no matter how powerless...
...staff recognizes the managers' commitment to improving the situation, but see them as powerless when up against the big wigs...
Criticizing those who believe "the best government is no government," the author of Lincoln at Gettysburg said powerless leadership is "panicky, arbitrary and random," rather than "confident, fair and just...
Most smokers feel powerless in the face of addiction; witness the many old people you see in the street nowadays, who despite ill health and even lack of money, will simply carry on buying cigarettes. We've all seen old men rummaging around in their pocket for coins at a Walgreen's counter to buy their third packet of cigarettes that day--packs they probably can't really afford. Ask them why they still smoke, and they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take...
...show that his success and power are as much mental creations as they are facts of reality, and they are capable of being shattered at a moment's notice. Vinnie, Carter's less fortunate partner in crime, is harder to get a handle on. He is pathetic and clever, powerless and manipulative by turns, and Blake Lawit '97 depicts his mental shifts as occuring as rapidly and uncontrollably as thunderstorms. Perhaps the only character in the play to have found peace and happiness is Simms, the victim of the blackmail scheme, superbly played by Michael Davidson '00. There...