Grace Dent of The Guardian commented on the realism of Zoe's storyline involving Adrian stating: "hapless Zoe failed her exams after refusing to shag dismal tutor Adrian.
Maddeningly, the author is devoid of introspection on the big issues.Instead, he wraps himself in self-righteousness and takes potshots at the hapless men who failed to support him, a stance that may be morally justifiable but grows repetitive.
It's not that the hapless presidential candidate failed to disclose something he was supposed to disclose, but that some of his most reliable backers were nowhere to be found.
The first is the story about a broken door in a German university, which attracted three days of jokes and memes at the expense of the hapless technician who failed to fix it.
Joe is a hapless hero, a failed salesman of encyclopedias and vacuum cleaners, who "had once sold a single Electrolux and eaten 126 pieces of homemade pie in a time frame where most salesmen would hope to reverse the ratio of vacuum cleaners to pie".
It's like 'Springtime for Hitler.'" (That's the hilariously appalling musical that Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a hapless duo of failed Broadway impresarios, cook up in Mel Brooks's black comedy, "The Producers," counting on the play to bomb, so that they can defraud their investors).
Dissatisfaction has been brewing for a decade and a half, though a plethora of hapless opposition parties has failed to do more than briefly interrupt LDP rule (for an 11-month stint in 1993-94).
As a serial apologizer, the hapless Lott not only failed to appeal to his detractors but turned off his supporters, in a classic example of how not to step aside.
When Saturday Night Live made fun of Sports Centers obsession with absurd metaphors and nonsensical interjections, Tim Meadows played Scott as the straight man while Ray Romano's hapless wannabe attempted, and failed, tobsessionreasingly absurd lines like "swith sabsurdolassy" and "you are going to pay a lot for that metaphorsnd the costs will be prohibitive".
Over and over, governments have pushed spending cuts on their hapless populations, and over and over those cuts have failed.
