Since then, what she tended to remember about him was his dogged ineffectuality.

Fear of age and ineffectuality took possession of her.

Once again I felt the crushing weight of my own ineffectuality holding back not only me but my innocent family.

The Praman defenders were stunned by their own ineffectuality.

The very slight change increases the impression of ineffectuality, which might be spoiled if there were some striking surprise.

He stood apart, overcome by a cruel ineffectuality.

This phase was to last a year and a half and it was a period of general ineffectuality.

The director is so insistent about picturing a widespread ineffectuality that she reduces our empathy.

Failure to identify with some such group or groups condemns us to feelings of loneliness, alienation and ineffectuality.

His ineffectuality had to be Shifter's doing.

The ineffectuality of our phasers has been obvious, and the Hachai are therefore not bothering to keep their distance.

The political ineffectuality of Decianus was underscored when he himself was brought to trial after his term ended.

There were repeated admissions of ineffectuality.

It's another portrait of impulsive, undirected goodness, and again its medium is a heartbreaking ineffectuality.

In a hapless first-act curtain, the actor and director conjoin in ineffectuality.

In cities around the world, individuals get together to take an 'overdose' of homeopathic pills to highlight their dilution and ineffectuality.

After one prolonged session of sputtering ineffectuality, he determined to rechristen them with appellations more to his liking.

They hated themselves-their lives, their poverty, their ineffectuality."

The battalion apparently was demobilized for the most part, while the constabulary remained in place but was reduced to ineffectuality.

Failing to act in the face of such vivid scenes of disaster quickly gives a president a reputation for weakness, ineffectuality, and dithering.

He walks a fine line in Haiti, where his take-charge manner and ability to push projects forward highlight government ineffectuality and weakness.

"The ineffectuality of obscenity law," she writes, "is due in some part to exempting materials of literary, political, artistic or scientific value.

Herman Petras plays Stan with an eruptive act at the ready; how else to deal with the character's ineffectuality?

Moreta spoke sharply, irritated by Diona's ineffectuality.

It verified impressions of the ineffectuality of politicians in a day when politicians were spectacularly ineffectual.