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
Their adenoidal squeak and chuckly delivery disguise both the stripping away of human culture and the ineffectuality of that culture that are his chief themes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Less Than Zero harnesses that ineffectuality with minimalism, compressing ennui into dread, and then into horror.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2019
Moreover the goods, having become a little stale during their years of ineffectuality, were beginning to approximate to the public taste.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
