Sentence examples for something hapless from inspiring English sources
The spots on a leopard, a bird's plumage, a tiger's stripes he could paint very well, but when it came to footballers' striped jerseys, or human hands or feet or faces, something hapless and laughable occurs.
His style touches something heroic and hapless in us all.
"I love the novel because there's something so deliciously hapless about William Boot [the nature writer who is confused with novelist John Boot and sent to Ishmaelia to cover a civil war]," she says.
PALOOKAVILLE (1995) -- Jersey City is home to three hapless 20-something thieves who, while attempting a jewelry heist, accidentally rob the bakery next door.
One of the best includes an S&P analyst sarcastically commenting that, after the crisis, the firm looked like something out of the 1980s hapless Wall Street comedy Trading Places: "You should see how it is here.
For a brief, manic time, however, the S.L.A. possessed something no other band of hapless ideologues could match: namely "Tania," which was the nom de guerre Hearst adopted on the lam.
1990-1: Kidney theft legends hit the U.S. The canonical form does not feature kidnapped, murdered children, this time the organ thieves target hapless single males, something along the following lines: "boy meets attractive girl in bar/girl invites boy back to hotel or home/boy loses consciousness/boy wakes up alone and discovers surgical incision in back/doctors confirm boy is short one kidney".
The Uighurs have become something of a Guantánamo Rorschach test: hapless refugees to some, dangerous plotters to others.
Bailey is a distinctly unreliable narrator, but there is something entirely engaging about his cheerfully hapless approach to life.
The richly colored and detailed work depicts four servants preparing the concoction while a physician looks on, hiding something behind his back while the hapless patient drinks.
After all, how many times did those lovable cut-ups on M*A*S*H trick their hapless commander into signing something he should never have signed?
