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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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One shuddering sigh, and how cold, vacant, forceless, dead, lies the heap of clay!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

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 George Saintsbury




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