Sentence examples for hapless subject from inspiring English sources

Al Smith, the Chicago White Sox outfielder who became the hapless subject in one of baseball's most famous photographs when a fan spilled a cup of beer on him as Smith watched a home run sail over his head in the 1959 World Series, died Thursday at a hospital in Hammond, Ind.

The hapless subject of a Gettier example has a justified true belief, and so succeeds in a sense.

And they don't get much respect: these days, violists are the hapless subjects of a huge repertory of musical jokes.

She particularly objects to the "experts" who mercilessly eviscerate the hapless subjects in the manner of catty teenagers trash-talking in the school cafeteria.

As the perverse doctor exacts his revenge, we see the film through several sets of eyes including those of a woman who is his captive and hapless experimental subject for his innovative skin replacement technique.

During the holiday season many public spaces become an aural purgatory, with hapless listeners subjected to a relentless torrent of Christmas jingles.

When India's best cricketers played their first Test match cricket's gold-seal, five-day format at Lord's in 1932, around the time Harris delivered his racist verdict, they came as hapless colonial subjects.

Fearless Prediction: This fall one of the hapless makeover subjects in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the hit cable show on Bravo that also runs on NBC, will likely be deemed to have inadequately gleaming teeth.

As the host of Agora é Tarde (It's Too Late), he slams the country's leaders and subjects hapless politicos to uncomfortable and inventive questioning.

They join the rest of the couples on a tropical counseling vacation on a palm-studded island, during which the hapless eight are subjected to some of the weariest jokes about therapy, yoga, men in saunas and other hilarious matters.

Over the years, as one seemingly arbitrary theory of mental illness gave way to another, so did its hypothetical cures, and Beam describes the harrowing array of treatments to which this hapless population was subjected -- not only electric shock but lobotomy, insulin coma and hypothermia, reducing the patient's body temperature to a near-death state.