Sentence examples for always ineffectual from inspiring English sources

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.

It seems the best-managed companies' efforts to innovate are almost always ineffectual and most vulnerable to extinction: one only be reminded that there are no integrated steel mills, steam ships or buggy whip manufacturers left in America.

Cynthia is small and ineffectual, and has always been melancholy and set apart somewhat from her husband and Milly and Dekko.

In half a minute you have had it proved to you that Pierre's ineffectual sensitivity will always sabotage his ideals.

His portrait of parents last Sunday was one of ineffectual boobs -- always muttering "last chance" to their children without ever following through; negotiating constantly with toddlers; endless puffing up their youngsters' self esteem; whipsawing between too controlling and completely out of control.

While it was great to get the dragon-like Pokémon from a strategic standpoint, it was always bittersweet to say farewell to the adorable, ineffectual Magikarp.

The Free Syrian Army was always a mosaic of factions and is now largely ineffectual.

He establishes in short order Michael's résumé as a sentimental but distracted and ineffectual father, a deer hunter who is always the only member of the hunting party who never fires a shot, a husband who has never troubled in years of marriage to ascertain the location of his wife's clitoris, an adulterer and liar of the utmost casualness.

The existential threat posed by political, anti-Israel Arabist and Islamist rhetoric -- toothless, ineffectual and empty as it is and always has been -- serves only to justify the extreme actions of the state of Israel against the Palestinian people.

In interviews he always insisted that his hacks were a harmless attempt to find evidence of extra-terrestrial life and highlight how ineffectual the American government's cyber security was.

A bit ineffectual.