Sentence examples for ineffectual attempts from inspiring English sources

Her ineffectual attempts to moor herself to her world (sex with her roommate's boyfriend, a small cruelty at work) are piercingly sad.

After his disappearance, an article in New York magazine chronicled Mr. Gray's despair after the accident and his ineffectual attempts to recover.

Nor do the ineffectual attempts by the actress, Virginia Rambal, to relive their past romance or her once-upon-a-time compassion when she disregarded his scars of slavery.

A more positive interpretation would be that the ineffectual attempts to destroy Ukip show the growing fragility of the carefully crafted management of what is sometimes called "the national conversation".

As it turns out, she can no longer feel it either: Pinkalicious (which would make an excellent stripper name) has become a raging tyrant, stamping her feet at the ineffectual attempts to cure her by Cupid, the Easter Bunny and one of Santa's elves.

What inclines me towards a more republican position are incidents like Air Miles Andy's latest brush with Kazakhstan and his office's ineffectual attempts to talk the prince's way out of compromising emails that had found their way into the hands of the Daily Mail.

At the loss of a second daughter, Mary makes an ineffectual attempt at suicide and is briefly institutionalized.

In 1914 Woodrow Wilson spoke for many frustrated golfers when he described the game as "an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose".

But then, in a small, ineffectual attempt to overcome his own passivity, Ed allows himself to be suckered by a garrulous traveling salesman (Jon Polito), who is looking for investors in a dry-cleaning venture.

A succession of pretentious, mystical thrillers has led to The Happening, an ineffectual attempt to reprise the Cold War, nuclear-angst horror flicks of the Fifties and Sixties (most obviously Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Panic in the Year Zero! ) for the era of global warming.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones responded to Twitter's seven-day platform ban Wednesday by posting a video to Twitter in which he blasted the company for its ineffectual attempt to shut him down.