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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

The political troubles which desolated Italy had obliged her noblest sons to fly far from her, but in their exile their eminent faculties became forceless and sterile.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

Darting one fiery glance toward her forceless husband, sitting humped up over the stove, his head supported on his hands, she exclaimed, "What does this mean?"

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie