ineffectuality
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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
Less Than Zero harnesses that ineffectuality with minimalism, compressing ennui into dread, and then into horror.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2019
But there was certainly in the whole conception a cloudiness, an ineffectuality, which was very little like anything that Ibsen had displayed before.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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