Sentence examples similar to Ineffectual desire from inspiring English sources
Ineffectual reforms will not calm the masses.
No sooner am I out of that frying pan, however, than I land in a fire; for still other readers objected that my preferred means of bringing about the world I desire would be laughably ineffectual.
On the contrary, it is the United Nations that has lost influence with the United States as a result of its years of tolerance of, and governance by, dictatorial and corrupt governments, its gross inefficiencies and bureaucratic inertia and its status as a bloated, ineffectual debating society with no capability, or even desire, to see its edicts enforced.
The inevitable frenetic sprint, the exuberant desire to escape to solitude, is nearly always ineffectual: other riders invariably catch up, if not in the same stage, then at some future time.
In 2007 John Walsh published a fictionalised account of Davidson's life, Sunday at the Cross Bones (Fourth Estate), in which, according to a review in The Guardian, Davidson is depicted as "well-meaning but ineffectual, bewildered by the world's wickedness and his own barely acknowledged desires".
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
It has proved ineffectual.
Both fathers are ineffectual.
Saints can be ineffectual.
