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

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

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 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