Sentences with phrase «hapless protagonists»
Dahlie's hapless protagonists are as hilariously flawed as they are earnestly humane.
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The German - Austrian actor plays self - made entrepreneur Bert Hanson, who takes a chance on new business owners Nick, Kurt, and Dale, the three hapless protagonists from «Horrible Bosses.»
More like a CBS comedy where you keep expecting a laughtrack to come in to remind you to chuckle when our hapless protagonists get in over their heads.
As words fall away for Winston, the hapless protagonist of the novel, as his consciousness is narrowed to the vocabulary of Newspeak, he finds himself unable to think, remember, to «fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few minutes at a time.»
Some of the pieces here are mere vignettes, tiny moments of observation or connection that span only a page or two, while others resemble longer journalistic pieces in which, inevitably, Crosley herself is the hapless protagonist even as she investigates the capriciousness of modern life.
The opinions expressed here are his own.In The Graduate, the hapless protagonist is given career advice in a single word: Plastics.
Not exact matches
«The Snowman:» A hapless crime thriller in which the protagonist's name, Harry Hole, is the least of its laundry list of problems.
As Joe Denton, the hapless ex - cop / ex-con protagonist of Small Crimes, Nikolaj Coster - Waldau wears a thick goatee that somehow, all by itself, transforms his look from Lannister nobility into discount Josh Brolin.