Sentence examples for seem hapless from inspiring English sources

Williams's persistence with them would seem hapless but for the surprising and, given a chance, the affecting spirit of romance that he finds in their exercise.

"The Door in the Floor" is a fragment passing itself off as a whole, and, for all its handsomeness and its occasional moments of piercing intelligence, it's a fundamentally depressing piece of work — not because it deals with tragic events and memories but because the characters seem hapless and even stupid, and the writer-director can't, or won't, take control.

Perhaps this is why McCain so often seemed hapless on the trail.

Nicolas Sarkozy, hyperactive and changeable, was not the best of presidents, while his successor, François Hollande, has often seemed hapless.

He'd seemed hapless, holding on to a stuffed animal he'd been given in a swag bag and planned to give to his new daughter - but also, it seemed, holding on for dear life.

LaRue is made to seem a hapless dupe caught up in scandal on a scale he could never have imagined.

The Iraqi police officers, who far outnumber Iraqi soldiers, seem mostly hapless, often standing by as mayhem swirls around them.

Persistent reports of farmers selling livestock and even their daughters in marriage to meet debts tell of desperation.But if opium-farmers often seem the hapless victims of circumstance, their estimated $500m in combined annual income is dwarfed by the $3.5 billion smuggling and refining business.

"We're not in a good place," an Obama adviser acknowledged last week, on a day when rebel forces seemed particularly hapless and disorganized.

In streamlining the story, Ms. Heller centers on the toxic bond between Minnie and Monroe, and the production best succeeds as a lacerating indictment of predatory male self-indulgence, though Monroe at times seems more hapless than egotistical.

The president, who often seems a hapless (but rarely hatless) figure on the national stage, has a real fight on his hands to keep his job.On October 1st he handed licence certificates to 14 private companies that have been allowed to buy chunks of Nigeria's dismally incompetent state-owned electricity behemoth.