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

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

After the catastrophe, which I attributed to the curse of ineffectuality that pursued me, I must confess that I was glad.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John