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

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

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

Moreover the goods, having become a little stale during their years of ineffectuality, were beginning to approximate to the public taste.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)