Sentence examples for hapless tone from inspiring English sources

Their hapless tone of "whatever" is captured in an essay about a Steely Dan album.

The attack was three-pronged but Albert Streit, otherwise impressive, set the hapless tone with a header from six yards that Given booted away.

Instances of the last struck me as wonderfully hapless, performed in tones of eager adult condescension that puts children on their honor to be uninterested.

The failure of two centre-halves to deal with a routine cross set the tone for a hapless defensive show from the visitors.

The intermittently amusing tone then shifts into hapless and depressing fare.

The Revs look absolutely hapless.

Matthew Polenzani sang beautifully as Don Ottavio, with a rich, sure tone, and made the best of the hapless character.

In this helpless, hapless mood, President Obama has been tin-eared and tone-deaf to our frustration.

But these two phrases, hapless as they are, represent something more than simple tone-deafness: Dreiser seems to be pulling in two directions at once.

Today, many of us are remembering a peculiar tone of intermingled anger and sorrow, mired in hapless sentimentality: Kelley's poetic signature.

That set the tone for an English summer of outrageous misfortune for the hapless Australians; a series characterised by bizarrely incompetent umpiring decisions and clearly faulty technology designed to correct incompetent umpiring decisions.