Sentence examples for hapless one from inspiring English sources

This tale of interwoven love affairs (one humorous and hapless, one swoony) and two enclosed worlds (gamblers and missionaries) is never dependent on one big lead.

With all its satiric comedy about television and medicine, the book is, Mr. Irving said, a romantic novel about "unlikely partners -- one hapless, one with a plan".

Fellini said of her characters here that they're not women, they're asexual, figures beyond or above gender – a remarkable thought given that in Cabiria, Masina plays a Roman prostitute, though admittedlya rather hapless one.

Yet come September, as the polls shifted, Mr. Bush became the hapless one, his malapropisms fatal and his aides reactive, while Mr. Gore had metamorphosed into a bold risk taker gleaming with a winner's confidence.

This same kind of thinking -- the idea of women as romantically hapless on the one hand and, on the other, the notion of the teenage libido as something so enflamed that the slightest loosening of societal constraint will give rise to an epidemic of sex -- can also be seen, perhaps, in the recent flap over Abercrombie & Fitch's now defunct A&F Quarterly, as the company catalog was grandly called.

Wood took a few minutes to recover and was still wondering where he was when he dropped a pass, albeit a wretched one from the hapless Ryan Lamb.

Bravo refers to these gentlemen as the Fab Five, though they might better be described as the Five Horsemen of the Straight Male Apocalypse: in each hour-long episode, they fix their gaze on one hapless Neanderthal, counseling him and taunting him on everything from his underwear to his icebox.

In each case, the failure is blamed on an individual - look at how the Shipman inquiry has dumped almost all the weight of failure on one hapless detective inspector.

Bobbing there in the water, I experienced the helpless, hapless feeling one has when he leaves for a hectic day of work before sunrise, knowing full well that he won't return home until his family is long asleep.

With the creation of the hapless Monsieur Hulot, one of comedy's most enduring characters (Mr Bean being an obvious derivative), Tati created a conduit through which he could channel his frustrations with what he perceived as an increasingly cold modern world.

Miller proves himself a dab hand at slapstick: Francis, the protagonist of "Fiat Homo" is as hapless as one of the Three Stooges, and Thon Taddeo, the brilliant scientist in "Fiat Lux" is a stuffed-shirt academician who would be at home in a David Lodge novel.