Examples of using "Impuissants" in a sentence and their english translations:
- We're helpless.
- We're powerless.
They're defenseless.
- We're helpless.
- We're powerless.
I know that you feel helpless.
And I think it's really important that we're not helpless,
Human beings are powerless before nature.
They're defenseless.
- Tom and Mary said they felt weak.
- Tom and Mary said that they felt weak.
"Back o'er the deep," cries Calchas; "nevermore / shall Argives hope to quell the Trojan might, / till, homeward borne, new omens ye implore, / and win the blessing back, which o'er the waves ye bore."
- I know that you feel helpless.
- I know you feel helpless.
Cold horror froze each vein. / Aghast and shuddering my comrades stood; / down sank at once each heart, and terror chilled the blood. / No more with arms, for peace with vows and prayer / we sue, and pardon of these powers implore, / or be they goddesses or birds of air / obscene and dire.
- "But I, who walk in majesty as queen of the gods, both sister and wife of Jupiter, I am still waging wars with one tribe for all these years! And who will worship the divine spirit of Juno after this, or what suppliant will bring an offering to her altars?"
- "But I, who walk the Queen of Heaven confessed, / Jove's sister-spouse, shall I forevermore / with one poor tribe keep warring without rest? / Who then henceforth shall Juno's power adore? / Who then her fanes frequent, her deity implore?"
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.