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Ineffectual in sentence

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And in the tales of the ineffectual anti-hero, in the stories of Guy Montag and Winston Smith, lie the warnings of contemporary storytellers playing on very primitive fears: that we are not strong enough to defeat the monsters.
But if you take a look at the two other biggest markets in the world, it turns out that the protection that's offered is really ineffectual.
There is only one scene where the bikes goofy weaponry is used, at the film's climax, and it is laughably ineffectual, or just laughable, when it is.
On this promise, at least, the movie delivers: her character is ineffectual, adhering to nearly every slasher-type horror movie cliche.
Zombies don't appear to have that much energy in other films.The villain well how ineffectual was he? His big part was in the shop.. tramping in and demanding to be served first.
Anyway, I saw 'Clean' and thought that was quite ineffectual as well.
Realizing that the state would take the children away from her ineffectual, alcoholic husband, she devoted the last year of her life traveling around the state to find new homes for each of the children.
His slow, ineffectual, befuddled, innocent character has somehow floundered his way into a marriage with a woman who feels that he of all people must be ruled with an iron fist, and he is only thrust into cheating on her because he can't say "no" to the exhortations of the chummy Vernon Dent and the cute eyelash-fluttering of the girl.
A fisherman (Nolan) is out to nab a killer whale, a very bad thing, but when he accidentally (ACCIDENTALLY mark you) hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate, the cow -- and I use the word in all senses -- who is obviously a sick psycho-bitch and the canonical villain of the piece -- throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself.
Former loving groupie turned patient, understanding, long-suffering manager Juliet Aubrey gets the group back together for an ill-advised, largely ineffectual and hilariously disastrous twenty years later nostalgic reunion tour of Europe.
Take Pitch for instance; the most ineffectual, camp, unhellish portrayal of a devil since Freddy Mercury and Wayne Sleep joined forces to create a ten foot Satan costume from red body paint and horns covered with condoms.
But Yaeger is merely ineffectual.
The lesbian vampires of the title are easily the most ineffectual vampires ever to grace the silver screen.
The king s played properly ineffectual; the main villain is wonderfully evil---and correctly dispatched at the end.
Half the characters were obnoxious, rude, abusive bastards, and the other half were ineffectual, incompetent, mumbling, pathetic losers, or sometimes a combination of the two.
Here's a short list of what can be found here, breasts, vampires, mummies, cowboys and kung fu mummies (which are wicked nimble), all this to a hodge podge of music ranging from uninspired rock to ineffectual rap.
Ted Wass is bland and ineffectual; when I watch him here I keep thinking of how much better this movie could have been if most of his scenes were acted or directed differently.
Enid is a dark-haired arch cynic who is tired of living at home with her ineffectual dad (Bob Balaban) and his annoyingly perky girlfriend Maxine (Teri Garr), while Rebecca is prettier and a bit cheerier, but no more certain about her future.
The nearest British television got to a 'Fonzie'-type character was 'Wolfie Smith' who, in his 'Freedom For Tooting!' T-shirt, khaki jacket, braces, jeans and green beret, was an ineffectual rebel somehow left over from the '60's.
The police in NYC are always an easy target, and are shown as being ineffectual.
Moreover, many of these regimes are simply ineffectual and will collapse or dramatically change in the foreseeable future.
Opponents within his own party are increasingly replacing the ineffectual Tory opposition.
Macron is right to point out that the EU bureaucracy often seems remote, uninspiring, and ineffectual; but he also rightly rejects referenda that polarize citizens over simplistic binary choices.
The political opposition – divided and ineffectual – was reinforced by a hybrid and loose military wing operating under the banner of “The Free Syrian Army,” and by hundreds of jihadis who entered Syria through porous borders and began to launch both military action and terrorist activity.
This development dilemma points to the third factor: ineffectual politics.
So, in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, resulting in a state of near-constant civil war for over a decade; an ineffectual central government in Baghdad; and now the rise of the Islamic State.
Illegal logging continues today, with only ineffectual efforts made to stop it.
Unfortunately, it is not clear whether there are any politicians up to the task, whether in the erratic and polarized US or in the ineffectual European Parliament and Commission.
The UN Security Council, meanwhile, has become ineffectual, stymied by the great-power interests of China and Russia.
But under ineffectual governance, particularly during the last three years, India is in danger of degenerating into a soft state.
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