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Forceless

adjective
1.
Lacking force; feeble.  Synonym: unforceful.






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"Forceless" Quotes from Famous Books



... There is no more insidious peril in modern religious life than the debasement of our conception of the practical. If we divorce the practical from the sublime, the practical will become the superficial, and will degenerate into a very lean and forceless thing. When Paul went on this lonely pilgrimage his spirit acquired the posture of a finely sensitive reverence. People who live and move beneath great domes acquire a certain calm and stately dignity. It is in companionship with the sublimities that awkwardness and ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various

... aimlessly into the street. Presently a sepulchral voice broke the silence. He turned—Mrs. Hilmer was leaning forward in her chair, regarding him attentively, while the maid stood a little to one side. He had expected to come upon a huddle of blond plumpness, an inanimate mass of forceless flesh robbed of its bovine suavity by inactivity. What he saw was a body thin to emaciation and a face drawn into a tight-lipped discontent. The old curves of flesh had melted, displaying the heaviness of the framework which ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie



Words linked to "Forceless" :   wimpish, forceful, unforceful, wimpy



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