| Yet, without strong and committed patrons, there is a real danger that he could become an ineffectual lame duck quite soon. |
| It is hard to see what more could be done other than a punitive and probably ineffectual bombing campaign. |
| Shortly later, Camillo, the heroine's elderly and ineffectual husband, was enacted by a young beanpole of a bumpkin. |
| Apart from the lead, the play is undercast, and it is sloppily staged, even making experienced actors seen ineffectual. |
| They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks. |
| Modern religious rhetoric is dilute and ineffectual, and where it isn't, it seems mad and aberrational. |
