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
For better or for worse, George Herbert Walker Bush has been enshrined in collective memory as a series of caricatures, all of them evoking ineffectuality.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2015
He's not going to make me a believer or anything, but it does feel encouraging to have such a person leading an institution whose absolute insistence on ineffectuality has been its defining characteristic for decades.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013
He realizes the tragic ineffectuality of his aspiration— “The desire of the moth for the star,” as Shelley expresses it, and in this line of poetry the mood finds imperishable expression.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
