As it inches toward a moony catharsis, this whimsical/melancholy exploration of writer's block and middle-aged angst builds an elaborate, symbolic framework to justify the attention it lavishes on its hapless protagonist, Richard Dunne Jeff Danielss), a novelist.
Ever since 1990, when Sky saw off its hapless rival, British Satellite Broadcasting, it has brilliantly exploited its control of the direct-to-home (DTH) satellite platform to cow rival programmers and Britain's late-starting cable industry (see article).
Of course no one was planning to murder the Sun and its hapless models, but some campaigners wanted it banned or confined to pornography shelves and starved of advertising.
The ranch is gone and its hapless community of "survivors" gone with it.
With a friend like China, North Korea's regime will go on mistreating its hapless citizens and expect to get away with it.
It was at those depths that the party ditched its hapless leader, Iain Duncan Smith, for Michael Howard, a respected ex-minister.Mr Howard began the job with prime ministerial gravitas, but has since fallen back on tut-tutting like a pub bore.
But it is the ultimate underdog, capable of captivating us with its hapless charm despite distance and darkness and years of scientists slowly chipping away at its status.
In its hapless disarray, the state almost invites satire.
The Spanish Inquisition's treatment of its hapless victims assumed that they could have avoided their heresies.
But, while Thorne has visible promise, his play seems as confined as its hapless heroine.
Mr. Forte co-wrote "MacGruber" and stars as its hapless hero, who often gets distracted from saving the world.
