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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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
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Time and again, as he stumbled or staggered, it seemed as though he would fail, so feeble had the body become and so forceless his will-power.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
The forceless particles of water, so yielding to the touch, which slipped aside at the motion of the oar, in their countless myriads ceaselessly flowing grew to be almost a solid obstruction to the boat.
From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard