These are devices that we resort to whenever we are unable to adequately explain our thoughts or feelings. Grammatical gimmicks attest to just how dull and dimwitted we have become. Ineffectual phrases are the expressions people use to delay or obstruct, to bewilder or make weary. How a person speaks often reveals how he thinks. And how he thinks determines how he behaves.
Ineffectual phrases add only to our being ineffectual people.
In an inescapable pair, the first word means much the same as the second or so often accompanies the second that any distinction between them is, in effect, forfeited. Other infantile phrases are more disturbing, for they reveal an adolescent, unformed reasoning. Their vitality depends on their evanescence. Nothing new do they tell us. Nothing more do they show us.