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

This is a stark difference from law enforcement in the real world, where ineffectuality is common and can lead to harm.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

They are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020

His abbreviated performance was both candid and deceptive – a glimpse of his own dithering ineffectuality, and an admission that royalty is primarily an acting role.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2018

He found himself writing a long and spirited letter to Bone Stillman, who came out of the backwater of ineffectuality as a man who had dared.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair