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

Their adenoidal squeak and chuckly delivery disguise both the stripping away of human culture and the ineffectuality of that culture that are his chief themes.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

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