Sentence examples of "impuissance" in French

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Son impuissance éveille sa compassion maternelle. His helplessness appeals to her motherly sympathy.
Le destin de Tom et Mary hantait sans cesse l'auteur, accablé par sa propre impuissance à en assumer le poids. The destiny of Tom and Mary ceaselessly haunted the author, weighed down by his own powerlessness to assume it.
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