Sentence examples similar to ineffectual language from inspiring English sources
You only have to look at Michael Haneke's ineffectual English-language redo of Funny Games, for example, to see there's very little to be gained, and an awful lot to lose.
Maybe this other voice -- the voice of the Wall Street protestors, the one refusing to give in to demands for legibility because it knows that the political language afforded to the citizen has been rendered ineffectual and basically non-communicative -- is the one that will provide an engine that will allow politics to really start happening again in the United States.
The play is a culture-clashing drama about an ineffectual, nervous Scottish writer who goes to Syria to sell English-language textbooks.
Eking out a meager income from the property that remained after generations of litigious heirs had thoroughly pillaged the family's estate, he lived a sheltered and ineffectual life, migrating from coffeehouse to coffeehouse, devouring literature in several languages and nursing his own oppressive sense of frustrated vocation.
For the English language specialist David Crystal, the term is usually given to the "loud-mouthed ineffectual upper class twit".
He ferrets out the reasons (not always as obvious as you might think) that language is central to the identities of these emergency rescuers, and he tracks their strategies -- some potent, some depressingly ineffectual -- for getting foundering languages back up on their feet.
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
It has proved ineffectual.
Saints can be ineffectual.
