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

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

They are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020

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

Men like Bunsen and Witherbee, who smiled at his opinions and remained cold to his rhapsodies, always oppressed him with a sense of ineffectuality.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison