"Ineffectuality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suggest nothing save that he should follow her about like a sympathetic spaniel. It was maddening. He walked to the window and looked out into the unexhilarating street, all that was man in him in revolt against his ineffectuality. ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke
... at Ursula. Her face was wet with tears, very bright, like a transfiguration in the refulgent light. Nor was his the hand to wipe away the burning, bright tears. He stood apart, overcome by a cruel ineffectuality. ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... and ineffectuality of the image tell us clearly how the poet has failed in his larger task; its exactness, its precise expression of an ineffectuality made conscious and condoned, bears equal witness to the poet's minor probity. ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry |
