ineffectuality
Example Sentences
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She has taken some seemingly principled steps to protect the country from the worst of her own party, but only once her ineffectuality was guaranteed.
From Slate • May 4, 2022
They are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020
TaB’s nothingness seems central to the meaningless luxuries and woes of the 80s youth generation: immunity and ineffectuality are the highest privileges of the young, beautiful and rich.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2019
Unruly as his rhetorical strategies are, Ventura is ultimately quite convincing about the ineffectuality of the War on Drugs, and on the contradictions and corruptions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a particular bugbear of his.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2016
He pitied the ineffectuality of Septimus with the kind yet half-contemptuous pity of the strong man with a fine nature.
From Septimus by Locke, William John