ineffectuality
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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
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
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
Fear of age and ineffectuality took possession of her.
From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Sherwood Anderson
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