forceless

Example Sentences

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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

These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

A forceless, nerveless maiden aunt is about the only antecedent we see much of.

From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson

The operation of force could furnish no evidence of the existence of forceless matter.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)