sapless

One of the first legislative memoirs I read, in about 1972, was "Congress: The Sapless Branch," written a decade earlier by Joseph Clark, who then represented my home state, Pennsylvania, in the U.S.

John Ruskin described the comic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” as “sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless.”

For Cunningham, the sexting scandal seemed like a crack in his carefully crafted sapless public persona—until, that is, one considered the actual leaked messages.

Liberal Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania blasted his colleagues as the “Sapless Branch” of government.

Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.