Meanings of ineffectuality in English

Writer discusses the ineffectuality of the UN in regard to human rights.

Although the AU is often criticised for ineffectuality, Vines considered such criticism unfair.

Fear of age and ineffectuality took possession of her.

The curse of ineffectuality still pursued me.

The essence of her temperament is ineffectuality.

And so we parted, with a thousand things unsaid, on a note of ineffectuality, of suspense, of vague indefiniteness.

He pitied the ineffectuality of Septimus with the kind yet half-contemptuous pity of the strong man with a fine nature.

A club of their means and history must not complain when there is a price eventually to be paid for ineffectuality.

It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.

After the catastrophe, which I attributed to the curse of ineffectuality that pursued me, I must confess that I was glad.

Despising her nervous ineffectuality and avoiding her rudely when she tried to touch his neck with witch-hazel, he made a hasty, choking toilet.

There was a strange air of ineffectuality about the three men, as they sprawled at table, smoking and reflecting vaguely on their own condition.

Men like Bunsen and Witherbee, who smiled at his opinions and remained cold to his rhapsodies, always oppressed him with a sense of ineffectuality.

Warm pints on the veranda, sunshine and duckponds, the acrid fragrance of bruised grass - it all seems to reek of stultifying Home Counties ineffectuality.

The words rang in the empty set like the ineffectualities of a ghost.

Writer discusses the ineffectuality of the UN in regard to human rights.