Word: powerlessly
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...White is a Polish joke played on the French. For Kieslowski it can be seen as a declaration of both love and disdain for a foreign country and a language in which he works but which he does not quite understand. In White Karol could be Kieslowski: resourceful, isolated, powerless, homesick. And Dominique could be France: beautiful, haughty, unforgiving, irresistible. "After all she did," Karol says, "I still love...
...entirely unexpected. The author of such luminous page turners as Ragtime, World's Fair and Billy Bathgate has made it a habit to surprise his readers with each new book. His central concerns -- the unavoidable sway of historical forces, the insidious effects of the powerful upon the powerless -- have remained constant, but he has chosen a variety of fictional voices and techniques to bring them to life. Even longtime readers, though, are likely to find The Waterworks Doctorow's strangest and most problematic invention...
...government-held territory in the western and southwestern parts of the country, out of reach of aid agencies and at severe risk for epidemics and starvation. United Nations peacekeepers, deployed in the once picturesque capital of Kigali now being shelled into a sprawling ruin, concede they are powerless to intervene: last week the diminutive force was twice compelled to suspend humanitarian operations after its vehicles came under heavy fire...
...ship seemed powerless at times toaccomplish basic tasks. Thousands of dollars worthof Hewlett-Packard computers donated to theUniversity sat in their boxes for weeks becauseHASCS staff had no time to install them and noplace to put them...
...conservatives are persecuted at this liberal hell-hole." True, Harvard got a fairly mild dose of the dread Political Correctness; Harvard's administrators are, thankfully, too smart to go around censoring people still, one faction of conservative students managed to paint itself as battered, beaten-down, eternally voiceless. This powerless bunch later went on to found 57 new conservative organizations and take over the Republican Club...