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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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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Love, only Love her forceless numbers mean; For thou hast left her shrine, Nor olive more, nor vine, Shall gain thy feet to bless the servile scene.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
“No more, in hall or bower, The passions own thy power, Love, only love, her forceless numbers mean.”
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by William Collins
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