But she is hapless and candid enough to be endearing, and the book fetish strongly works in her favor.
Any hapless footballer unfortunate enough to have endured the infamous "hairdryer treatment" dished out by Sir Alex Ferguson over the years would quickly support the theory that upsetting the short-fused Scot is rarely a wise move.
He woefully misplaced a penalty kick, and he darted through a hapless defense often enough to where he should have become the second player of this tournament — after Argentina's Gonzalo Higuain — to claim the match ball for scoring a hat trick.
Its long-simmering alcohol problem can't be hidden from the public anymore, and bringing the hammer down on the agents hapless or unlucky enough to get caught isn't going to solve anything.
In 1862 the Scottish geologist Hugh Miller wrote about the Irwell, in his book First Impressions: The English People, describing it as: The hapless river a pretty enough stream a few miles higher up, with trees overhanging its banks, and fringes of green sedge set thick along its edges loses caste as it gets among the mills and the printworks.
They are having too much hapless sex, or not enough, or maybe the wrong kind.
Global audiences just can't seem to get enough of hapless Captain Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) and his squad of misfit LAPD trainees, a precarious melting pot of eccentrics and outsiders whose antics reliably bubble up into a LOLcano.
Audrey's boyfriend, Orin Scrivello Scott Johnsonn), is all swagger and nitrous-induced delusions of grandeur; Seymour is hapless but with just enough fire to press his life forward; Audrey is a caged bird singing, never judged by her inability to leave her abusive relationship, choosing financial stability over safety.
Along the way, millions of dollars would be swindled from hapless investors and Belfort would consume enough drugs to, as he puts it, "sedate Guatemala".
He is clever enough to make this hapless self-awareness amusing, but under it is a murmur of sadness that makes the audience restless.
