Sentence examples for especially hapless from inspiring English sources

On the evidence of England's warm-up defeat by Italy, when his replacement Rangi Chase was especially hapless, that could lead to an uncomfortable month for McNamara.

The best is the small visual gag that starts the movie when Danny Masterson ("That '70s Show"), as the especially hapless Fitz, holds a stethoscope up to the digital safe he's trying to crack.

A gambler -- especially a hapless amateur like me -- needs time to build momentum, get a groove going, allow enough time to win back what might have been lost.

Slightly too few recurring sketches is one problem, while some of the ones that are on offer flail, especially their hapless dating consultant whose lame suggestions are too weak even for comic gain.

The whole cast was strong, especially Judith Christin as the hapless Susie and Victoria Livengood as the loud-mouthed Mrs. Doc, Dinah's co-dependent friends.

The tenor Alan Oke was delightful in four minor character roles, especially as Franz, the hapless servant in Antonia's house who secretly longs to be a singer.

As Jon Ronson noted in a penetrating examination of the deconstruction of Justine Sacco, a hapless, not-especially-public publicist who tweeted a bunch of racist comments that gave rise to an "ideological crusade against her bigotry" while also serving as "form of idle entertainment" for a bullpen of internet wits.

Especially if your team is the hapless Knicks, a franchise lost in darkness that has not had a great point guard in more than three decades.

Likewise, the tenor Mikhail Agafonov as her hapless young swain Andrey, especially when given the stage to himself for his doomed, Lensky-like recollections of vanished childhood dreams.

The movie, written by Kasdan and Judd Apatow, is an uneven spoof of music bio-pics (especially "Walk the Line"), with John C. Reilly playing a hapless dolt who rises to the top by imitating every popular style at exactly the right moment, from Elvis to the Fab Four to Dylan.

The production is a hapless muddle that disserved the valiant singers, especially the tenor Neil Shicoff.