The club wasted £12.5m on buying Christopher Samba from Anzhi Makhachkala in the January transfer window two years ago, to be rewarded with performances that redefined the word "ineffectual" (why Anzhi paid the same fee to bring him back at the end of the season is one of those mysteries that has one wondering quite what the deal was all about).
Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words.
Strikingly, words like weak, ineffectual and mediocre to describe Mr. Obama have migrated and been transmogrified from talk-radio screech into reasonable on-air discussion.
Others call them outdated, ineffectual and absurd, the same words they have used to describe the country's "equal time" regulations that require each candidate, no matter how marginal, to be given the same airtime on television and radio in the campaign's final weeks.
In other words, if Mr Clinton proves ineffectual on the world stage, the fault lies with him and predates the arrival of Mr Starr as his grand inquisitor.It is a tempting conclusion.
The current government, so badly divided that it has not yet agreed on a candidate for the elections, is painted by Mr. Berlusconi and others as ineffectual and infected by "buonismo," an Italian word that suggests bleeding-heart liberalism.
The most fascinating thing will be to see if Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling, both ineffectual, are benched from the start against Slovakia – word now is that Daniel Sturridge will replace the former.
In other words, Fix the Debt isn't just ineffectual in its pursuit of a Grand Bargain, it's an actively malign force in our politics, in effect acting as an ally of the extortionists.
Similar to the use of the English word stillborn as a synonym for useless or ineffectual (7), it is unsurprising that the local term makes no reference to the life that has been lost.
Her favorite son, Darren, is the most ineffectual.
In other words, don't sit there fuming about the shouting child and his ineffectual parents.
