Sentences with phrase «ultimately ineffectual»

The three main male characters — Carl, Clement, Arthur — though different, are all ultimately ineffectual in some sense.

The Vanishing), what emerges from this studio remake is a frightened, sometimes patronizing, and ultimately ineffectual thriller that transforms all the controversy and introspection of the original into something rote and predictable.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)-- The «Blue Dogs,» a group of moderate to conservative House Democrats who have worked to limit the price tag of health care reform legislation, are taking a hit from a prominent Republican who is suggesting that the group will ultimately prove ineffectual.

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.

Through my effort to understand how it works (and my possibly ineffectual effort to explain it) I've wavered, but ultimately think it has potential.