To avoid the hint of inducing a sort of benevolent (even if ineffectual) bribe, you would do better to separate your personal and professional projects.
As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small, ineffectual nip you might get from a spoilt child.
It doesn't mention the fact that CBT and talking therapies alone can be ineffectual if you're struggling too much to do any of it.
As Hilton Als wrote in his review, the show "is so ridiculously brilliant, so lavish and sublime a confection that any set of adjectives you might come up with after a single viewing will more than likely be replaced by another set of ineffectual adjectives once you've seen the show a second or third time".
"Xanadu" (at the Helen Hayes) is so ridiculously brilliant, so lavish and sublime a confection that any set of adjectives you might come up with after a single viewing will more than likely be replaced by another set of ineffectual adjectives once you've seen the show a second or third time.
Click through page after page of news of the people involved in the affair — the behind-the-scenes string-pullers, the installed puppets, the hypocritical apologists, the coy waverers, the ineffectual leaders — and you won't come across the names of any women at all.
It's just a bunch of women, driving each other insane, waving mascara wands like tiny ineffectual swords, shouting "You look FAT in that!" at each other.
But this failed to mollify the questioner, who added: "We're not querying your motivation, just that you're ineffectual".
Concentrating attentively and selectively on the issues that really concern you, rather than fretting and being ineffectual in your response, can help you relax and give some space to get a fresh look at the subject.
You know how ineffectual that is".
