Sentence examples for truly hapless from inspiring English sources

In such a situation, temporary balance-of-payments support together with generous debt relief makes sense.This focus on the reformers ought not to mean abandoning the citizens of Africa's truly hapless countries.

Another Phillies fan I know spent his childhood much intrigued by the pitcher Steve Carlton's capacity to win for the succession of truly hapless nines his team fielded in the early 1970's.

If the movie business were truly as hapless as this, nothing of any value would ever have slunk out of Hollywood, and it isn't long before "For Your Consideration" bumps into an intractable problem.

It was a truly calamitous decision, making him and his hapless son, James, look decidedly foolish and weak-willed.

Set that against the myriad variables of a 200km bike ride, and even the series of pitfalls waiting for any ambitious professional cyclist (form, illness, mutinous or hapless team-mates), and it seems truly remarkable that one man can appear as likely to win as Cavendish.

Is jealousy indeed a litmus test that a woman may deliberately try to evoke in her hapless boyfriend, to check if he is truly committed, as Buss suggests?

A truly astonishing number of lab gadgets were unleashed on the hapless dogs, and they were tested on hardness, springiness, cohesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness, all important and traditional measures of sausage texture.

(Trevor's hapless partner doesn't seem to register the implications of these insults, and he looks truly surprised when Trevor finishes out the evening by getting him caught by the police).

A fond but hapless father.

"Hapless and helpless," he wrote.

Italian courts have sometimes proved hapless.