forceless

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At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.

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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.

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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.

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Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, From morn to night, even where I list, to sport me.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

Both had the same incapacity of unlaboured and forceless art, the same insensibility to passion, the same inability to rise above mere humours and contemporary oddities into the region of universal poetry.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George