forceless

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.

As a mother, she was rather forceless; the excellent elements of her lineage seemed all expended in the capacities of the child.

And as matter is forceless, it can itself give no evidence of its own existence, for that would be an exercise of force.

“No more, in hall or bower, The passions own thy power, Love, only love, her forceless numbers mean.”

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.