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

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

For better or for worse, George Herbert Walker Bush has been enshrined in collective memory as a series of caricatures, all of them evoking ineffectuality.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2015

Except for this tie of ineffectuality, they had nothing special in common.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)