forceless
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
These missiles, thrown by a forceless arm, did not make half their intended journey.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances
