impotence

Example Sentences

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Men do not face a binary choice between power, birthright and dignity on one hand, and emasculation and impotence on the other.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

In fact, despite all of DeLillo’s fascination with terrorism and death cults and the impotence of the individual swept up in unstoppable social forces, I’ve never considered him to be an especially paranoid writer.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

His shows addressed racism, terrorism, impotence and homosexuality.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

In California, the family felt anguish — and impotence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2023

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley