Sentences with phrase «hapless efforts»

Lose your composure and it's easy to fall into a spiral of panic that finds you making increasingly hapless efforts to save yourself.

Mortdecai's hapless efforts aren't laugh out loud funny but you will have a small chuckle to yourself.

But despite the title and the general sense of a ubiquitous presence that his character has in the movie, Schwarzenegger is rarely onscreen in the film, which is instead focused on the hapless efforts of a team that has been assembled for the sole purpose of murdering Gunther in the name of occupational glory.

Tepco's hapless efforts since to stabilize the situation have been like someone playing «whack - a-mole», Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi has said.

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.

First, the scientific consensus on global warming has hardened, making blanket opposition to it harder to maintain... a hapless effort to scrap the endangerment finding, which would invite a backlash from the next Democratic administration.

Not exact matches

What the hapless Al Campanis did was to say out loud that though baseball tolerates the presence of blacks on the playing field, not enough of its leadership believe sufficiently in the principle of equality to make that second effort to put blacks in administrative positions.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

Alcivar, the Stefanik campaign spokesman, said: «In a sad turn of events, Mike Derrick has chosen to spend the final hours of his anemic campaign in a hapless, undignified effort to falsely attack his opponents.»

To wit: rather than meet with real reporters to discuss its handling of last week's California wildfires, the hapless agency staged a faux press conference at which its own officials pretended to be journalists à la The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, grilling and praising FEMA's firefighting efforts.

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

In Australia's so - called «wind power capital», South Australia, it's hapless Labor government could never be accused of letting common sense get in the way of its efforts to destroy any remaining economic advantage that the beleaguered and mendicant state might still possess.