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
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
Singer represents government and its ineffectuality, the vague dimensions of his character permitting the projections of all the rest.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2017
He found himself writing a long and spirited letter to Bone Stillman, who came out of the backwater of ineffectuality as a man who had dared.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair
