Sentences with phrase «from hapless»

Here are 7 ways to turn your home environment from hapless to happy...

That's significantly more attention than he get's from the hapless students in his little chem 101 class.

With its compound eyes roving on prey, from the hapless Toyota Highlander to the BMW X5 M, the refreshed Grand Cherokee shows impressive adaptivity.

But while Saulnier has scored grim chuckles from the hapless maneuvers of amateur law - breakers, Blair — who also wrote the screenplay — cranks the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes: Lynskey, recognizably human in a role that puts her expert comedic timing to good use, is quickly surrounded by a rogues» gallery of cartoons, including Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as an oddball Christian neighbor turned sidekick.

There's little doubt that Sutter developed his love for the bottle from his hapless dad (Kyle Chandler), who left Sutter's mother some time back after cheating on her and who is on a daily alcoholic binge with his loser pals three hours away.

Plaza does fine descending from hapless to mindless.

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.

by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.

Here he steps into the comic vacuum created by Herz's misguided transformation of Jim (Jason Biggs) from hapless, sex - crazed adolescent to sincere lover.

That is undeniably true and I well remember an article in the Telegraph by Michael Howard written in the form of a letter to John Reid, who had just taken over from the hapless Charles Clarke as Home Secretary.

THeo Walcott let the visitors off with a poor penelty after winning the foul from the hapless Moreno.

The young fan is finally apprehended, but with little help from the hapless duo who are left prone on the ground, prompting a few giggles from amused players.

Giroud may not have been in the best form for Chelsea recently, but the 31 - year - old could hardly miss here after such a gift from the hapless Ospina in the opposition goal.

Not exact matches

From its title to its overarching narrative, HIMYM offered a schmaltzy celebration of a hapless romantic and the four friends who endlessly support him in his quest to find Mrs. Right.

But even default might not drive the hapless president from power.

She was even known to make prank calls to threaten her hapless ex-members — personal story from one member.

In this sense, the premise is not so different from dozens of other network sitcoms featuring hapless husbands and the life lessons they learn and impart.

Every County social services worker knows from direct and shocking experience with their hapless clients that it's actually the HETEROS who are destroying marriage with their high rate of 1) divorce 2) spousal abuse 3) sha cking up 4) child abuse 5) abandonment 6) drugs and alcohol, etc. etc..

(161) Is one who followeth the pleasure of Allah as one who hath earned condemnation from Allah, whose habitation is the Fire, a hapless journey's end?

I know well whereof Peter Kreeft speaks, and in fact have a rather guilty conscience about purveying some of the errors of the Received Wisdom myself from time to time until my further reading informed me how deceived I (and my hapless students) had been.

Remi Garde's hapless strugglers held out until half time, but Yaya Toure, Raheem Sterling and two goals from Sergio Aguero, including this smart volley, put them to the sword after the restart.

A penalty - shootout defeat to Stoke City, in which hapless Hazard failed from 12 yards, saw the Blues booted out of the Capital One Cup 48 days earlier.

instead wenger sells our best players and brings in a bunch of hapless characters from the french leagues and refuses to strengthen in the places where there were obvious deficits..

No words of wisdom from the wenger faithful then... to be honest am not even feeling vindicated after 5 years of saying enough of this deluded nostalgist just shocked at the mid table football the 8m quid man now serves up... his exit will need to be followed by at least half a dozen of his hapless progeny... and boards short termist disrespect to fans means they will have to cough up a packet if this team is going to get back to the top of European football... the 3m quid consultant needs to disappear up the orange man's tax fiddling backside as well...

The Birkenhead - born Irish striker, receiving the ball from Glenn Whelan, flicked it off the ground with his right foot before swivelling and hammering it past the hapless Asmir Begovic.

Despite being 3 - 1 down from the first leg, Champions League contenders Bayern Munich plundered five goals against a hapless Porto in the first - half of tonight's quarterfinal...

Heart of America from Chicago, Azzurra, the Aga Khan's poor little rich girl, and the hapless Challenge France from Marseilles, will be home for Christmas.

Clearly you didn't... They dominated the game controlled the midfield we provided zero threat til the last 10 minutes... Your boy Iwobi was utterly hapless when he came on... A year at brentford to see if he is any good coz at the moment he ain't an EPL player let alone a top 4... Wenger learnt nothing from the Liverpool game..

either way, the last 3 years have made me fall from admiring Wenger to disliking him in spite of invincibles, ucl run etc — I just can not respect a man so hapless he cant see his family starving

If you walk like a hapless manager talk like a hapless manger and perform like a hapless manager... Chances are you are a hapless manger... wenger has never changed a team at half time and so don't expect him too even though the changes are obvious... Like job bush wenger is a low energy manager and we end up with low energy team... sad... And giroud will add nothing here they need to be opened up from wings and middle...

Coach Paul Dietzel's quick and lean and hungry young men took advantage of every break — most of which they made for themselves, which is always the mark of a good football team — and swarmed all over the hapless Blue Devils from Durham like a cloud of angry bees.

Off the back of a dreadful display at Norwich at the weekend, Arsenal again showed no cutting edge up front, while hapless left - back Andre Santos was repeatedly and ruthlessly exposed by second - half goals from Dutch duo Klaas - Jan Huntelaar and Ibrahim Afellay.

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.

Olivier Giroud came on in the dying minutes for France in a Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifier against Spain and scored the equalizer, the Ox scored his debut goal for England against the hapless San Marino team, whilst Theo Walcott was almost cut in half by the wildest of challenges from the San Marino goalkeeper, ruling him out of action for the weekend game against Norwich.

England still secured qualification from Group B with a draw, taking them to five points, but they finished a place behind Wales who comfortably dispatched hapless Russia 3 - 0 in Toulouse.

In a climate where the headlines were rife with stories of tantrumming toddlers and their hapless parents getting tossed from flights, by distributing baby flight goody bags these parents were lauded as «considerate,» and «thoughtful.»

Former SDP / Liberal Democrat but now Blairite Labour Peer Andrew Adonis has written a book, «Five days in May,» in which he describes, from the Labour Party perspective, the hapless discussions with his former party on the remote possibility of a Lib - lab...

Theirs is a life of patient expectation followed by hapless attempts to break through the barrier that separates them from their idealized destination.

«Immediately he receives federal allocation, instead of paying salary of workers and pensioners» allowances, Fayose will be going from town to town to deceive the hapless artisans at the grassroots that the money he received was not up to the amount announced and published.

The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

So heavy are they that strips of blubber are cut by them from the back of the hapless whale.»

Think of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's hapless Michael Brown and how he discovered thousands of people were trapped in the New Orleans convention center: «I learned about it from the news reports,» he said.

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.

When the International Astronomical Union changed its definition of what constitutes a planet in our solar system in 2006, demoting hapless Pluto to a dwarf planet, the decision sparked fierce scientific debate and an outcry from the public.

It's not like we are just the hapless host; we have benefitted immensely from bacteria.

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Yes, Hogwarts takes a quite a serious beating, with the whimsical school reduced to rubble as Voldemort's armies commence their siege with help from trolls and spiders, storming the grounds on the hunt to slaughter as many hapless students as possible.

From here on out, War of the Worlds is one lengthy but always gripping chase film as the massive alien tripods stalk hapless humans over hill and dale, blasting them into ash with vicious, serpentine ease while the military runs afoul of their seemingly invincible shields.

Arriving in New York City following a nasty breakup, Slevin gets mugged while he's practically still on the airport tarmac; shortly thereafter, this hapless (and newly walletless) innocent winds up being mistaken for the deadbeat pal in whose apartment he's crashing, targeted by not one but two ice - cold criminal kingpins — archrivals, no less, who've spent the last two decades malevolently eyeing each other from matching penthouse suites situated just a few blocks apart.

Frankly, it could use a few more frights because it's predictable from stem to stern, right down to the manufactured scares, to the hapless victims making disastrous choices — e.g. leaving cellphones where they can easily be destroyed, not holding on tightly to a handgun that could have been very useful — to the killer who's so devishly difficult to kill.