Sentence examples for pretty ineffectual from inspiring English sources

So the Farley indictment is pretty ineffectual as a way of banishing "Just Love" — indeed, the paperback version has shot to No. 16 on Amazon.com.

Patton's flight attendant scours the schedules and skies to find a suitable fiance, with help from her colleagues, in a pretty ineffectual romcom.

Ms. Gabor said that while she thought the beach sirens would be "pretty ineffectual" in an actual emergency, they probably prompt memories of security and authority in people who remember the fallout shelters of the 1960s or the air-raid warnings of World War II.

In part, after the West's pretty ineffectual bombing of Iraq, a lot of Arabs fear that NATO will just make a mess of it: many Arab officials agree with Saddam Hussein that the weapons the western powers "use to scare the world are incapable of changing things".

"Firstly, the body has been pretty ineffectual.

"In the old days it was a day or so - if it takes a day or so every time, it's pretty ineffectual".

THE CROWD Noisy and casual; somewhat ineffectual servers.

Orlando Bloom plays Paris, the pretty but ineffectual prince who steals the King of Sparta's wife, Helen Diane Krugerr), whose face does indeed launch a thousand ships.

Uruguay's muscular style, which clinically destroyed the dreams of host nation, was too much for a pretty but ineffectual Mexico.

Aminta can easily be sidelined as the ineffectual pretty boy waiting for fate to deliver Sylvia into his arms; Polunin gives the role romantic gravitas by the force of his technique.

I'm pretty sure they'd have a bit more loyalty to their grizzled commander than the ineffectual chap who turns up at the gate demanding to be let in, especially given that Jaime and his white horse are so close by.