Sentence examples for hapless to from inspiring English sources

What may seem reckless and feckless and hapless to people in many parts of the world seems a justifiable risk to Americans".

Malkovich builds up a picture of a society in which spectacular ferocities have overtaken reality — a society delegitimatized by violence and hapless to defend itself.

I was asking him about the time between the Pretoria and Bloemfontein Tests in South Africa last summer when England switched from cautious and hapless to brave and fluid in the space of a week.

Officials with the team, which is now mostly owned by the Russian billionaire Mikhail D. Prokhorov, are also hoping for an image change from hapless to hip, which will be important given that ticket prices peak at $1,500 for courtside seats (half the seats will be priced at $55 or under).

This nonsystem system has preserved the autonomy of schools and school districts, but it has also had the effect of ensuring that while communities that demand high educational standards have schools that reflect them, communities that care about football get football and communities too careworn or hapless to make demands at all get very little, unless they are lucky.

He's one "9/11 was an inside job" blog post away from a full house of dickhead opinions, but support for his ultra-capitalist, far-right party seems to be growing anyway, and all the left-leaning parties are too hapless to do anything about it.

Amy Dunne does it to take revenge, to bring the hapless Nick to heel and to consolidate her power over him.

The Uighurs have become something of a Guantánamo Rorschach test: hapless refugees to some, dangerous plotters to others.

Another artist does just that, lost to the musings of the gender differences in the phrase "to finger," and brings the hapless Gloria to climax.

The Boy narrator (a puzzling impresario figure played by Jorge Palau, who welcomed the audience to "Actoria," Queens) invited the hapless audience to follow.

It falls to the plucky if somewhat hapless Channing to run the show.