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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides, to a child of positive traits, those persuasions are utterly forceless which, instead of being addressed to the prominent faculties, are directed to those comparatively deficient.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

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 Frances Douglas




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