Sentence examples for ineffectual performance from inspiring English sources

One of the curiosities of the last international break was the ineffectual performance of Theo Walcott for England against Malta and Slovenia.

Wright had surely spent much of the opening half bemoaning the ineffectual performance of Michael O'Halloran, who has been one of Scotland's stand-out domestic players for a concerted time.

The Chilean forward started as a lone striker in Saturday's 2-2 drawithth Everton but was substituted at half-time after an ineffectual performance.

Zach Lowe of Sports Illustrated best captured James' ineffectual performance by describing him as "a bizarre mix of James Jones, spotting up in the corner while the big boys did the work, and a ho-hum point guard running endless pick-and-rolls but unable (or unwilling) to penetrate into the lane".

This season has, though, been less satisfactory internationally; he was dropped by England after a series of ineffectual performances.

His moping and ineffectual performances began just in time for the World Cup, which took place just after he substituted his dodgy blonde locks for a more serious brunette do" — Daniel Kennedy.

Andy Grove, a former head of Intel, describes the administration's performance as "ineffectual".

Fans of historical analogy compare his performance to ineffectual responses by President Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis, and President George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina.

Poor operating performance and ineffectual leadership continued to bog the company down for many years, even after it was acquired in 1989 by the British entertainment conglomerate Grand Metropolitan and its successor Diageo.

Looking like Mackenzie Crook's comic school teacher Mr Bagshaw in his unbecoming tracksuit, Keith Fleming gives a tremendous performance as the ineffectual Ossian who seeks solace in the mythological power of storytelling.

Gordon's brother, sweetly ineffectual in Mark Shanahan's appealing performance, gets a special kind of succor from Jean: They fall in love over the paper samples in his stationery store and achieve a kind of earthly transcendence that may, in its small way, even beat eternal life in that great Top Forty in the sky.