Sentence examples for hapless expression from inspiring English sources

The editing, along with Caine's impeccably-timed delivery and Michael Standing's hapless expression, are a stroke of comic brilliance.

How else to explain the hapless expression of Vice Adm. José Alba Arnez, commander of the Bolivian Navy, captured by Mr. Munita in the admiral's office in La Paz, a city which is 11,942 feet above sea level?

The Revs look absolutely hapless.

As the writer Lyra Kilston observed in the magazine Modern Painters, in words that could just as well describe the life of many a New York office worker, the trials in Ms. Gilmore's work "thwart victorious resolution," and even if the hapless striver succeeds, "we see a vaguely confused expression that seems to question why she was engaged in the senseless action to begin with".

The movie is a kind of awed testimonial to the power of madness and an expression of contempt for sweet reason, which comes off as hapless.

The most interesting bit of the victory, for those of us old enough to remember the regular 10-0 thrashings of hapless Continental teams in the Sixties, was manager Rafa Benitez's fed-up expression when the sixth goal went in.

A fond but hapless father.

"Hapless and helpless," he wrote.

Italian courts have sometimes proved hapless.

In this he's not hapless.

If only, wince hapless Libyans, it were.