Sentences with phrase «like hapless»

With so many stories of lawyers who manage to evade detection as they work at large firms or PD's offices without ever having taken the bar, you have to wonder how someone like this hapless fellow got caught lying about (oh horrors!)

If the world really does drown in the outfall of melting ice caps, or sizzle like a hapless earthworm on a city sidewalk, our doomsayers will bask in posthumous vindication.

And in the second part — like the hapless shop assistant in Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch — he gallantly attempts to distract our attention with some stuff about all the other things that they might be good for.

Players who complete the mission will be rewarded with in - game Keroro masks that cause characters to speak like the hapless amphibian alien invader hero of Sgt. Frog / Keroro Gunso.

It results in something like those hapless tethered horses plodding in a circle to power a millstone.

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.

And they should thank their lucky stars they didn't end up like the hapless weasel (Martes foina) that electrocuted itself at the Large Hadron Collider and shut off part of the facility's power in 2016.

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...

She became not one of the lost ones, like the hapless and anonymous crewmen accompanying Odysseus, but the hero of her own story.

Don't be like that hapless miner!

Not exact matches

It may have gone down like this: A hapless Krispy Kreme franchise partner in the sleepy city of Hull, England was recently brainstorming ideas for a series of promotional events.

Like the first scenario, this also leaves your prospect in the role of damsel in distress or hapless villagers waiting to be saved.

The charges against King George were sometimes moderated by reference to the book of Esther: The hapless king was manipulated by Haman - like advisors who turned him against the children of the land of the Virgin.

There are some recipes that swoop into your life like a super hero streaking towards a hapless victim.

More like one of those hapless clowns wheeled out at kids party to do stuff with handkerchiefs.....

We put on a good unbeaten run, have anomalous games like this one on the rare occasion, and then the hapless Wenger reverts to type, starts making irrational decisions, doesn't listen to advice when things start going wrong, and then things get progressively worse, as other teams put their foot on the accelerator, and our wheels come off.

You might want to try L Ron Hubbard next... He was paranoid too, and like Wenger was a master manipulator adept at stringing along his hapless followers through a mixture of philosophical jumbo jumbo and the promise of a glorious future... AFC the Arsene football cult... Sad... A victory today plus announcement shortly after of his departure would be a great weekend

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

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.

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.

I don't know what happened to Arbeloa at the weekend (he is not shown as injured) but I would plump for Fernandes at right back who looks much more of a footballer than hapless Havard does — I wonder what Adrian is like at right back!

While Baby Boomers and Gen Xers like to imagine those of us born between 1980 and 2000 are a bunch of hapless, entitled, overindulged, narcissistic babies (which is pretty rich considering they raised us), one description they probably don't associate with «Millennial» is «parent.»

So, just like George Osborne sent his junior minister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - sceptic MPs.

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.

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.

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.

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

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

While the young lovers drive the plot, the comic heart of a play like this one belongs to the servants and the hapless older generation.

Their memories wiped by a self - inflicted dose of Rohypnol, the hapless trio must piece together the events of their debauched night, in the course of which — ER, police custody, an encounter with Mike Tyson — some very funny, very non-PC dialogue is thrown about like a game of catch.

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.

It's as if Lanthimos has put us in the shoes of aliens, looking down on hapless beings that look like us, but do not sound or relate to one another in any way we actually recognize.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Like many hapless heroes past, the orphanage's imminent closure is the catalyst that provokes the middle - aged trio to leave their lifelong home and track down the funds to keep the place open.

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.

FilmNoirBlonde is also a place to connect with tough guys and wily women — such a challenge because we ladies of ill repute can be hard to actually locate, what with traveling incognito, making quick getaways in 5 - inch heels, vanishing like puffs of smoke, puffing smokes and seducing hapless chaps in dimly lit bars.

Tom Holland actually made his big screen debut as Spider - Man, once again a hapless high school kid just like in the original comics, in Captain American: Civil War, recruited by Tony Stark to be his secret weapon against Captain America's rebel heroes.

The hapless Khrushchev is volun - told, as they say, to stage Stalin's funeral, a fiasco not just limited to the guest of honor's casket, equipped with a plexiglass dome like a midget submarine.

The jury's still out, because while there's an awful lot of grenade - chucking in the last hour of the picture, none of it looks particularly football - like (or athletic come to think of it) despite the deadly accuracy of each toss aimed at the hapless commie combatants.

Its money shot is the Katie Morgan character spraying a quart of liquid shit on a hapless cameraman during anal sex (reminding that even when Smith wasn't entirely feckless, like in Dogma, he still had a shit monster)-- a joke set up with her declaring that she's constipated and prestiged when the cameraman complains that the «bitch» has «frosted him like a cake» or some such thing.

Resembling the Sally doll from A Nightmare Before Christmas, Emily begins to behave like Regan from The Exorcist, talking to an invisible friend that says nasty things and causes her to behave poorly in front of guests (she even tells a hapless, Stephen King-esque local constable (Dylan Baker) that he's about to die).

There's no business like sleaze business — until his hapless gofer brother Sonu gets the idea to make his own opus with the girl of his dreams, an apparent ingénue.

There's also the continuation of a farce - like storyline that involves a hapless, newly crooked pharmaceutical worker: basically Walter White if he'd been a lot dumber.

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.

Playing those hapless older folks are the likes of Tony Hale (Gary on HBO's Veep), Melanie Lynskey (Little Boxes) and Justin Long (Lavender), all fine actors who convey sincerity and ineptitude with dreary verisimilitude.

He's drawn to the frazzled, the hapless, the mistake - prone, and if Green Room, like Blue Ruin before it, can't ultimately resist the visceral thrill of vigilante justice, at least it isn't afraid to make its characters look scared and weak and powerless and recognizably human.

The house is full of surveillance equipment, the dramatic possibilities of which the director, James McTeigue, fails to exploit, while the goons are so hapless (no gloves, no masks, no plan) that they make the Keystone Cops look like paragons...

Then again, Park fills the screen with unexpected and whimsical creations, too, like a giant toothsome duck that terrorizes the land like a remnant from the Jurassic Age, an orange warthog of sorts named Hobnob that's like a silent, capable Gromit to Dug's hapless Wallace, and a talking bird (Rob Brydon) that sends mostly incendiary messages to Lord Nooth from the Queen.

Rockwell again dances a line between hapless dope and demented genius, almost like a Walken 2.0 as he utters an indelibly hard - boiled bon mot: «I didn't mean to break his nose.

The story goes a little something like this & ldots; Dudley (Brendan Fraser), a well intentioned but hapless Mounted Policeman, discovers that his nemesis Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) has a plot to swindle the land from the locals with a phony gold rush scheme and in the process steal Dudley's girl (Sarah Jessica Parker).