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

This is a stark difference from law enforcement in the real world, where ineffectuality is common and can lead to harm.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 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

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)