ineffectuality

Example Sentences

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Paul’s passive behavior in dreams is a dig at his own ineffectuality in life; the mere idea of someone so unmemorable becoming a celebrity of the subconscious is a cruelly ironic jab.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

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

Selin could be any number of his gentle, ineffectual intellectuals, whose very gentleness and ineffectuality make them so important, according to Nabokov.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2017

Singer represents government and its ineffectuality, the vague dimensions of his character permitting the projections of all the rest.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2017

And so we parted, with a thousand things unsaid, on a note of ineffectuality, of suspense, of vague indefiniteness.

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Bennett, Arnold