Sentence examples for hapless man from inspiring English sources

Typically in "Stay Awake," a hapless man, alone and far from secure in his existential moorings, finds himself in crisis.

At the first sign of trouble, he would pick up the telephone to bark at the hapless man in charge.

When it's revealed that Amy has framed Nick, we get a classic tale about a manipulative, wicked woman who traps a hapless man in her web.

In another, a hapless man is in custody, still clutching an attaché case and a bulging black garbage bag, insisting this was not his battle.

The props guy shouted back, "They said – " "Who is they?" he roared back at the hapless man.

The match was lopsided and brief; midway through the second round, Zou was pummelling the hapless man, 20 0, when the referee stopped the fight.

6. Do help hapless men.

They are in control, their sexual potency a weapon to be wielded over hapless men.

"Gallants" is a brisk, riotous comedy in which the female dancers are predators and the hapless men are flies looking for love.

The quarrelling sisters and their hapless men were so inept that they couldn't run across a lawn without some calamity befalling them.

The fire Dimbleby cited (which was not about the cartoons, or about Jytte Klausen's book) was the work of three hapless men, operating on their own.