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This compounds the sense of will-lessness that pervades the book and gives Dr. Zhivago the air of a hapless victim.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sense of will-lessness afflicts modern man, the conviction that he cannot affect events or even control his own destiny.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was acting in a state of will-lessness, of auto-suggestion.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

The world of Calypso is that of self-indulgence, inactivity, will-lessness, to which Ulysses has sunk after his sin against the source of light, after his negation of all intelligence.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

Man now attains to the state of voluntary renunciation, resignation, true indifference, and perfect will-lessness.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur