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

These films make Hitler out to be a punching bag by playing up his well-known qualities of insecurity, impotent rage, and ineffectuality, though that’s hardly a foolproof strategy.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2019

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

He stood apart, overcome by a cruel ineffectuality.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)