Sentence examples for hapless at from inspiring English sources

Chopin was rather hapless at orchestration.

Sadly history will remember him as being hapless at both.

It might not have been fair, but the government appeared hapless at times.

It was also unfortunate that Charlie Davies and Robbie Findley appeared ineffective at times and hapless at others in attack.

CINCINNATI — Until recently, Johan Santana's starts had been the Mets' cue to look hapless at the plate.

He imagines characters so careful in their reasoning that they are deeply, maddeningly unreasonable but also tenderly hapless at the same time.

Like the same-named figures in "Uncle Vanya," they are hapless stay-at-homes who have never really lived.

Sex-role fatigue is treated as a joke in comedies like "Up All Night," which stars Christina Applegate as a working mother with a hapless stay-at-home husband (Will Arnett), and "Last Man Standing," an ABC series that stars Tim Allen as a father who is forced to become a stay-at-home dad when his wife returns to work.

Others included another Wharton classmate, Rajiv Goel, a hapless executive at Intel; Adam Smith, a hardworking Harvard graduate at Galleon; and Danielle Chiesi, a hedge fund trader with deep connections inside publicly traded technology companies.

But he also paints himself as a hapless bumbler, at the mercy of life's absurdities.

"Monastiri?" I said in a hapless attempt at an Albanian accent in what I later discovered was a largely Greek-speaking region.