forceless
Example Sentences
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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
A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, From morn to night, even where I list, to sport me.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
