English example sentences with "ineffectual"

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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My efforts seemed ineffectual.
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In the reign of King Stephen, the Castle was seized by Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon; and though the King afterwards endeavoured to dispossess him, his efforts were ineffectual.
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"Past me was a weak, wimpy, ineffectual little thing," Alice stated sullenly, "a total doormat, the kind of person that would let you walk all over her. She was more concerned with being a 'good girl' and getting along with everyone and not making waves than expressing her true feelings." She shook her head, then turned to stare Linda square in the eyes. "But you… you changed all that. And for the better. You got me to brush aside my totally PC façade and just express the inner me."
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