Sentences with phrase «around hapless»

Nor is it anything new: Alan Coren's feuilleton Tax Brittanica was probably not far off the mark, with his fictional Roman accountant, Dubious Abacus, running rings around the hapless tax inspector Miscellaneous Onus in 408 AD.

Before horror cinema became obsessed with low - budget, haunted house, night - vision camcorder borefests and the gorno genre fetishised the violence with series like Paranormal Activity or Saw respectively, horror films were generally based around hapless teens fleeing supernatural forces or maniacs with machetes.

The story revolves around a hapless man's efforts to save his relationship in the midst of a zombie outbreak in Great Britain.

Although privacy activists make RFID sound like yet another invisible chain wrapped around the hapless consumer by the forces of big business, the technology may well grant consumers power in the marketplace.

Not exact matches

Things aren't looking up for hapless Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone — the Italian conceded eight as his team were destroyed at Southampton last week and this time around Mannone presented a goal to Alexis Sanchez with an awful piece of control.

It took just seven minutes for the deadlock to be broken when 37 - year - old Toni spun around three Napoli defenders to net past a hapless Mariano Andujar for a scrappy opening goal.

As Kevin De Brunye and David silva ran rings around United's hapless midfield, you could see the confidence draining from the players as quickly as the colour drained from our faces.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

Machines and sites and software are breeding at an exponential clip, and we hapless humans race around trying to adapt.

Forget about hapless mates being dragged around by macho mammoth killers.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

The fascination of the film lies in its painstaking observation of the hapless lovers and of the world around them.

While she ultimately becomes COMPASSIONATE through her concern for Nell (who is targeted by the house when other people aren't around), Theo fails to look even remotely frightened as major portions of the house are blowing up in her face or chasing our hapless heroes.

DJ (Mitchell Musso) has spent years staking out the neighborhood crank, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), and his tumbledown house, the one in stark contrast to the otherwise pristine suburbs around it, all the while keeping a journal of exactly what he's been confiscating from the hapless neighborhood kids who trespass by so much as a millimeter on his sinister lawn.

The transparent plot of this action comedy revolves around the heroes» hapless effort to save a tiny town from the clutches of a bloodthirsty gang.

Whirling around the action are Michael Zegan's rather hapless Mikhail, Elisabeth Moss» grim and darkly cynical Masha, Jon Tenney's attractive but elusive Dr. Dorn, Mare Winningham's matronly Polina and Glenn Fleshler's hot - button Ilya.

As a favour to his mother, the hapless (Hill), a young man so unappealing not even his girlfriend will go down on him (opening joke revolves around the girl making up an excuse so she doesn't have to «make mouth love» to him, despite just getting a downstairs bath herself), ends up spending the night taking care of a bunch of snotty kids, who join him on an impulsive dash trip to the city.

It's fun to watch Clooney mirth and mope around in his hapless fashion, and with the alluring Catherine Zeta - Jones as his rival, there is a love - hate chemistry that will remind you of the terrific comic pairing of Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd in the hit TV comedy, «Moonlighting.»

The hapless - hero subgenre of comedy has been around for decades, serving as a springboard of funny situations for actors such as Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, Bob Hope and Danny Kaye.

In a series of scenes reminiscent of John Wayne dragging Maureen O'Hara around the Irish countryside in The Quiet Man, Cin - Dee found and dragged the hapless Diana around the town like a rag doll.

Daniel Radcliffe's girlfriend has ordered him to be tidier.The 21 - year - old actor is hapless around the home so Rosie Coker - who he has been dating...

George Miller's film is an outrageous exploiter drawing intelligently on everything from Death Race 2000 to Straw Dogs for its JG Ballard - ish story about a future where cops and Hell's Angels stage protracted guerrilla warfare around what's left of a hapless civilian population.

These kind of shortcuts drain The Cloverfield Paradox of any tension with hapless scientists being tossed around by whatever disaster needs to happen next.

According to Krakauer, Weathers was like a hapless pinball bounced around the mountaintop for sixteen hours, and he almost surely would have died if others hadn't helped him down the treacherous slopes at significant risk to themselves, and if his wife had not arranged for a dangerous helicopter rescue.

Israel Armstrong — the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel - gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland — finds himself on the brink of thirty.

Perhaps while Ubisoft is choosing the next hapless animal to append a «z» to, Capcom will get around to giving the Wii the exclusive Resident Evil it deserves.

This prolonged lull in the game is due to the fact that our hapless hero manages to wind up with three versions of himself running around, leading to roughly 3x the mayhem creating potential.

To win while playing as a hapless goon you need to lower the enemy team's reinforcement count to zero, done by killing enemies and capturing the three points around the map.

In a gameplay demo reportedly moving seamlessly from cut - scenes to gameplay, an unspecified Snake character moved around a base during a rainy night picking off those eternally hapless guards.

Most of the early game takes place on foot anyway (except when you're forced to drive around the wastes on hapless fetch quests), but when the later game takes to the road, we really began to get a sense of combat fatigue.

The story centers around two rival groups, Yatō and Licht Kreis, who are working to prevent a paranormal event known as the Hollow Night, in which creatures called Voids to appear and feed on the essence of Japan's hapless citizenry.

Slide this adorably demented character around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80's horror movies.

Upon being attacked your hapless crew will run around in circles, or more often directly into the line of fire.

Slide around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and take out hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror movies.

Slide this adorably demented murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror movies.

Those cute little enemy characters would chain saw through my hapless party as I fumbled around, trying to come up with a coherent strategy.

You can create a bubble that slows everything within it, generate an explosive rift that deals area damage, dodge rapidly, conjure a shield that deflects incoming projectiles and execute a sustained sprint that brings the world around you to virtual standstill, allowing you to pound hapless victims with a melee strike.

He moves toward the hieroglyphic, so - called neo-primitive pictographs, symbols and patterns, usually in black on white, that would become his signature style; this scheme's noticeably male stick figures seem at once powerful and hapless, as if they caused the chaos that swirls around them.