Sentence examples for ineffectual man from inspiring English sources

In other words, it's about a smart, capable, active, and ambitious woman who settles for a moderately ineffectual man who is both well-hung and good-hearted, and when they get together at the end (albeit by way of similarly implausible family tangles), their bond seems motivated and sure.

And a new song, "The Hopi Way," made several turns: it began as a rant against the obnoxiousness of younger generations, then seemed, weirdly, to turn into praise for the ethical stolidity of the American Indian, ending as an ineffectual man's cry of frustration.

A college freshman grew up "knowing" that he was just like his father, a depressed, somewhat ineffectual man who had problems functioning at work and at home.

As Neil LaBute does with the ineffectual men in his works, he dramatizes the problems of passivity.

In her voice, the inner lives of Korvette's seething, ineffectual men come bubbling to the surface.

They are all meek, ineffectual men who, in an effort to outdo their powerful fathers, overreach until they implode, making one colossal sized dunder-headed mistake after another.

Shunshoku umegoyomi (1832 33; "Spring Colours: The Plum Calendar"), by Tamenaga Shunsui, is the story of Tanjirō, a peerlessly handsome but ineffectual young man for whose affections various women fight.

But he was often viewed as an ineffectual yes-man, and was someone she increasingly treated with impatience and disdain, in front of cabinet colleagues.

Yet she works smartly with her actors: while Skarsgård wolfs down great handfuls of scenery, McGregor effectuates a thoughtful transformation from ineffectual tourist to man in the field.

Surrounded by all this silliness and hindered by ineffectual choreography, the men don't have much hope of making an impact.

Saddled with infants, handicapped by ineffectual or brutal men, worn out by the daily struggle, they nonetheless show courage, energy and almost saintly good humour.Calixthe Beyala's "Les Honneurs perdus" (Albin Michel; FFr120) is more assertive.