Sentence examples for so ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Why are modern movie villains so ineffectual?

Security was so ineffectual that camera crews accompanied arsonists into the buildings.

No wonder architects have been so ineffectual in confronting the pressures of global urbanization.

Updated at 12.45pm BST 8.36am BST Why have the Ukrainian security forces been so ineffectual?

'I felt furious with Emma for being so ineffectual - and I passionately hated her daughter for terrorising my son.

Indeed, so ineffectual must hurling spring onions be in this circumstance that it's doubtful anyone has ever tried it.

His advice to a lawyer complaining about the sentences was more civil, but so far ineffectual: "Write to your state legislator".

But given its crucial necessity, how could the very mechanism upon which democracy depends become so scornfully ineffectual?

But this week's reactions to Trump's budget hints point toward a long, draining, contentious process likely to further stymie the regime's showy but so far ineffectual agenda.

Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict also foundered Sunday as the Arab League rejected a Syrian effort to amend a so-far ineffectual peace agreement, and Mr. Assad said in a newspaper interview that he had no choice but to continue his military campaign against dissidents and vowed that he was prepared to fight and die if needed.

For much of that time, the office had been criticized as ineffectual, so much so that the City Council slashed its financing and Mr. Bloomberg called the job "a waste of everyone's money".