Sentences with phrase «by ineffectual»

If there are a few sweet moments between Rauch and Middleditch here, they're all but erased by an ineffectual story with a surplus of forgettable performances and an admittedly impressive void of genuine laughs.

Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) has been banished to Khaki Scout summer camp, where he is a nerd among bullies overseen by ineffectual scout master Ward (Edward Norton).

She is our conduit into Edwardian - era, proto - feminist empowerment, her innate sense of cheery subservience having been chipped away over the years by an ineffectual husband (Ben Whishaw), a lecherous boss (Geoff Bell) and tyrannical copper (Brendan Gleeson).

You would think that Ozil's two assists which helped Arsenal into the FA cup final, followed by an ineffectual performance from Sterling as Owen's former club crashed out would have tempered his attitude, but he was reluctant to give the German any credit.

Not exact matches

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Throughout the book, he seems a somewhat ineffectual person, murmuring «For his mercy endureth forever» from time to time while being circled by the villains and thieves who wish to get their hands on the sacred vessel.

If therefore as Christians we feel obliged to use the reprimand, the argumentum ad hominem, or even physical restraint, we must realize all the time that such things are only a means to an end; by themselves they are both incomplete and ineffectual.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

Axial individuality could be overcome by rejecting consciousness in favor of unconsciousness and thus relapsing into a preaxial state, but it could also be removed — or rendered ineffectual — by dissociation of each momentary occasion from its connection with its predecessors and successors.

We were totally dominated by Tottenham, and they bullied our ineffectual players right through the match.

Not only did Moreno endure a difficult season under an ineffectual manager and come out of it as one of the better products; however, as the rise of Joe Gomez took hold, he was dropped by the soon - to - be relieved Ulsterman as the defence began to leak goals.

A high octane start in the win at Arsenal was followed by a largely ineffectual performance against newly promoted Burnley.

How the complaint will be handled by the state Board of Elections, whose enforcement power is widely seen as ineffectual, remains to be seen.

Sir Denis O'Connor argued that anti-social behaviour should be treated more seriously by the police who are often deemed «unconcerned or ineffectual», giving it low priority compared to other tasks.

Also, amusingly, Smith — whose leadership four years ago was rendered embarrassingly ineffectual by his conference's defectors, and who is no longer in a meaningful leadership position — is now rumored to be flirting with a party switch, after having floated his own name to run for mayor of New York City next year as a Republican.

The report found rampant use of excessive force by correction officers, the overuse of solitary confinement and an ineffectual system of investigating assaults by guards.

The PCC is considered toothless by most observers and its investigation into the allegations of phone - hacking seemed to vindicate the views of those who consider it ineffectual.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

The later is the most ineffectual approach and the most damaging as the heart only «feels», it can not understand nor be taken in by these words we try and deceive ourselves with.

That Carnes and Gilbert eventually turn the whole thing around by forcing John to fight for his mother and Mr. Woodcock's crumbling relationship is nothing short of absurd, and - though the performances are all fine and the movie is mercifully short - Mr. Woodcock is generally as ineffectual and instantly forgettable as most of Thornton's comedic output as of late.

Given the difficulties faced by actor Carlyle and the screenwriters to successfully convey pure, unadulterated evil, much of what we learn about Hitler is conveyed by the observations and reactions of other characters, notably crusading but ineffectual anti-Nazi journalist Fritz Gerlich (Matthew Modine), and especially German publisher Ernst Hanfstaengl (Liev Schreiber) and his wife, Helene (Julianna Margulies).

By the time it got around to a little action, the results seemed half - hearted and ineffectual.

Curiously, a kind of salvation for both arrives in the same person: Dr. Johann Struensee (Mikkelsen), a radical thinker who is bemused by the silly pomp of cou rt and enraged by the Council's ineffectual governing.

However, rather than getting us to invest in these stock characters, the vast majority of the opening hour is ineffectual, with the film continuously hampered by a poor script that does little to add layers to its cast of players.

The only government representatives here are held firmly in the background, referred to in news reports or dismissed as ineffectual — or worse — by citizen self - defense groups in both the U.S. and Mexico.

by Walter Chaw A castration / redemption picture with the most ineffectual central character in any film south of Polanski, direct - to - video thriller Malevolent casts Lou Diamond Phillips as an eternally - framed homicide detective and Kari Wuhrer as an ex-softcore goddess now reduced to acting badly in a variety of scoop - necked blouses.

A sadistic yet ineffectual prison warden (Dwight Yoakam) done in by the divergence from the novels that Game of Thrones has taken on television.

Wichita superficially resembles some John Ford westerns because of Earp (a character in Ford's My Darling Clementine and Cheyenne Autumn), because the romantic interest is played by Vera Miles (who would later turn up in The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and because the town has a newspaper run by an idealistic but ineffectual drunk (like Edmond O'Brien in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).

The results with this year's «Rock The Kasbah,» penned by Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, are marginally better, but not by all that much: It's an utterly forgettable and ineffectual «comedy» that's more reminiscent of Murray's mid -»90s nadir («Larger Than Life,» «The Man Who Knew Too Little,» et al) than the more critically adored stuff he's been making this century.

Watchable fantasy starring Lily Collins as Snow White, the orphaned heir to a magical kingdom who's oppressed by her evil stepmother until a handsome but ineffectual prince turns up to save her.

Punctuated by a handful of well - observed scenes that belong in a better film (including a hypnotic close - up of Huppert's face that seems to last an eternity), it's ultimately a flat, ineffectual affair that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang.

This would in turn inevitably draw the Department of Education deeper and deeper into the business of operating schools, most likely by issuing an ever - expanding set of ineffectual yet burdensome edicts.

Like sparks thrown off by a fire, these complaints by themselves are ineffectual.

«He had been educated only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man but kept a child.»

Preservice teachers can experiment without the risk of consequences they might normally face if their classroom decision takes an ineffectual or even chaotic turn viewed by a university supervisor or cooperating teacher.

I struggled with it for a long time — getting ineffectual help from customer service — and only figured out what was causing the problem by carefully combing through the user discussions.

the female character in that is the most ineffectual useless character i've ever seen in a video game, you literally have to lead her by the hand virtually everywhere.

Now that President Obama and other heads of state have left Paris after a round of announcements and events, thousands of diplomats and functionaries — pestered by lobbyists, campaigners and journalists — are getting on with the grunt work of the 21st Conference of the Parties, which is aiming to improve on the ineffectual 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and replace a problematic subsequent agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

It intends to obtain 51 % of its electric supply from renewables by 2017 — more than double what the ineffectual state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) mandates.

But what with evidence somewhat lacking on positive CO2 feed backs, the present temperature plateau continuing, model projections of warming way out with observation, the analogy appears a bit, well, Ehrlichean, seems to me.And then there's the bleeding of economies by costs of CO2 reduction measures and subsidizing ineffectual, (evidence indicates even un-environmental) renewable energy policies, no gain for lotsa» pain.

First, it makes voluntary action to reduce emissions ineffectual, since this just lowers the cost of emissions permits (I thought this had been fixed by the changes announced in March, but I was wrong on this point).

New emissions data for the 10,000 industrial installations covered by the EU - wide cap and trade scheme shows that greenhouse gas output fell in 2012 by 1.4 % despite the ETS's current ineffectual state.

I think they wanted something focused on action, despite how they phrased it (I mean, maybe I'm naive but I can't believe the law society would do something as ineffectual and silly as trying to advance equality by making licensees run around parroting their belief in equality.

«The recent amendment to the UK Finance Bill 2016 to include enabling legislation that would require companies to publish a «country - by - country report» (CbCR), showing where they paid their taxes and earned their revenues, is nothing more than an ineffectual naming and shaming exercise,» says Miles...

«The recent amendment to the UK Finance Bill 2016 to include enabling legislation that would require companies to publish a «country - by - country report» (CbCR), showing where they paid their taxes and earned their revenues, is nothing more than an ineffectual naming and shaming exercise,» says Miles Dean, Managing Partner, Milestone International Tax.

Ali Naseem Bajwa, terrorism specialist at 25 Bedford Row, says the government's case for the extension of the current 28 - day limit to 42 days was «manifestly not made out» and that concessions offered by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, were «at best ineffectual, at worst misleading, and the result appeared to have more to do with political expediency than anything else».

This sleight of hand is achieved every time a reader locks onto the Web, by stressing velocity over reflection and brevity over complexity, preferring snippets of news and bytes of facts over lengthy discussions and elaborate dossiers, and by diluting informed opinion with reams of inane babble, ineffectual advice, inaccurate facts and trivial information, made attractive with brand names and manipulated statistics.

There is a NYT piece today, «Japan's E-Reader Industry Struggles to Keep Up as Amazon Takes the Lead» about how ineffectual the results have been for all the posturing and bravado by Rakuten's CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani even on his home turf.