Sentence examples for ineffectual manner from inspiring English sources
Chambers Dictionary simply defines the term as "a young middle - or upper class man with a loud voice and ineffectual manner".
In historian Tim Gosling's description, they saw "safety pins and Mohicans as little more than ineffectual fashion posturing stimulated by the mainstream media and industry.... Whereas the Sex Pistols would proudly display bad manners and opportunism in their dealings with 'the establishment,' the anarcho-punks kept clear of 'the establishment' altogether".
Izaguirre and the ineffectual Lassad made way.
Because an aged Larry Holmes only lasted four rounds with Tyson, but each time he tied Tyson up in this manner, the young banger looked completely ineffectual.
In the preface to "Heartbreak House," the World War I play he called, in homage to Chekhov, "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes," he described the world of the ineffectual and privileged as "this palace of evil enchantment.
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
It has proved ineffectual.
Saints can be ineffectual.
Both fathers are ineffectual.
