Sentence examples for hapless that from inspiring English sources
These luxuriant atmospherics are backdrop to the story of the Muirs, a fractured, afflicted, hapless — that is to say, sadly typical — American family.
On the evidence of England's warm-up defeat by Italy, when his replacement Rangi Chase was especially hapless, that could lead to an uncomfortable month for McNamara.
Yet its efforts have been so hapless that many accuse it of not really trying.
It was rarely a fight, against a team who are so hapless that manager Gus Poyet's frustration is now impossible to keep in check.
As the eager, inept policeman -- so hapless that his brother says he would charge a shoplifting child with the Kennedy assassinations -- Mr. Welch is often very funny.
It's true that upon arriving in the New World they were so hapless that they would surely have perished during their first winter without the help of the American Indians.
His excellent ensemble will perform a double bill consisting of a new piece, "Hapless Bizarre," that draws on the physical comedy of vaudeville, and his signature work, "Mo or town/Redux," a smooth retelling of "Othello" that is also an homage to José Limón's classic "Moor's Pavane".
What does a coach say to a defender as hapless as that?
The production is a hapless muddle that disserved the valiant singers, especially the tenor Neil Shicoff.
"Do you have a sister airline?" They ask the kind of hapless employee that airlines employ for precisely this sort of occasion.
Luckily she was easy to spot in her bright-red Mountain Host's jacket, streaking past the hapless skiers that lay in her path before pulling up in a shower of snow to wait for the slowcoach.
