Sentences with phrase «more hapless»

Our sole purpose is to dissuade, deter and prevent more hapless lemmings from repeating the mistake of law school.

A more hapless bunch of Round Table knights couldn't be found, and Monty Python has never been better than they are here.

Season 2 of this delightfully demented series sees the couple continue to keep up their bloody secret under wraps while Sheila dines on some of their more hapless neighbors.

You encounter a boss every ten levels which changes things up a bit but then it's back to mowing down scores of more hapless robots.

Tragically, these technocrats appear more hapless every day.

In retrospect, Beijing's meddling looks more hapless than prudent.

Not exact matches

In the past year, Smith also became co-director of eConventus Holdings (B.C.) Ltd., the latest venture of one Mohammed (Mo) Jiwani, who has left a trail of hapless investors across the country over more than a decade.

Chris Martenson, economic researcher, trend forecaster, The Crash Course author, and founder of Peak Prosperity, discusses the eight forms of capital you need to become resilient to crisis, how the financial system scams hapless investors, and why gold will get much more valuable once the next oil crisis hits.

The news spreads to the hapless refugees and, hapless no more, they sing and dance without letup until the blessed coast comes into sight, and with it, thousands of people waiting on the beach to welcome and celebrate them - those nine hundred whom the world has despised and rejected.

(Though it should be noted that at times the story is funny and satirical, with hapless characters who seem more suited for a Shakespearean comedy than the Bible.

I don't understand... This is a must win game as man city is unlikely to lead to a result... Yet no style or pressure or ideas against a hapless team... 30 mins and not a shot on goal... Ramsey and giroud and mert are championship level players and no more... In fact am not sure giroud is even that level....

In what would be one of the more complicated transfer deals of the January transfer window, AC Milan want to swap hapless Spaniard Fernando Torres for Atletico Madrid's struggling Italian Alessio Cerci, reports ESPN.

It means more work on the offensive line and the running game, but with their next two against the hapless Jets and Bills, it's possible.

anything but a win will make 4th place an increasingly distant goal... to be honest we should be able to beat this lot woy has tightened them up but hardly turned them in to big hitters but i do nt think wenger can motivate the team anymore so its all about whether players show up on the night... wilshere needs to get on the ball more partnered with elneny who is probably the most reliable of a hapless riumvirate, kosalinac and debuchy given roles in a back 4... if sanchez wants to showcase his skills i can see a 2 1 victory... otherwise could be looking at another embarassing loss... pathetic that we have fallen to this level of speculation

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

Devil Rays Hapless club (43 - 87) was on track to lose 108 games and become first team in 23 years to lose 100 or more two years in a row.

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!

BBC Radio 5 Live's hapless commentator Jack Nicholls said he rated Nico Hulkenberg above Fernando Alonso, much to the derision of his commentating colleagues and the general public and anyone who's watched more three grands prix.

That's what Boston College coach Steve Addazio saw in Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson on Saturday after the sophomore added BC to a long list of defenses that looked hapless an... more

when I picture the hapless Midlands club more as a burnt - out Austin Allegro.

The hapless Philippe Mexes struggled to pin him down in the home tie and if we do happen to score in Rome it's more than likely we'll have the Dutchman to thank for it.

Despite that he would have been far more value at West Ham during last season than the hapless Jonathan Calleri.

This incredibly irresponsible article about sexting portrays young males as hapless victims of their own sexual and approval needs and young females as those responsible for redirecting the young men into more appropriate behaviors.

In short order, the RSLC raised more than $ 30 million to fund Rove's vision while its hapless counterpart, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, raised barely one - third of that amount.

While his parliamentary performances have more or less neutralised the hapless Miliband, thoughts this summer will instead be turning to the next general election.

Thousands of private landlords have successfully tracked lead - paint inspections for more than two decades using a proprietary software program — and now they're offering to share it with the hapless New York City Housing Authority, which has been struggling with compliance issues.

Nevertheless, it does seem that the highest earners (or those with sympathetic wealthier parents) will be able to pay off their loans more quickly, thus avoiding interest, which the hapless middle income people will have to pay.

Yet despite the ritual purity he maintained, he was also able to embrace, without judgment, several generations of Westerners who crowded into his yoga school year after year, who more often than not, myself included, started off with him as hapless quasi hippies.

and more than a few encounters with Toad's hapless henchmen (Andy Serkis and Bill Nighy) as well as his super-evil French cousin, Le Frog (Jean Reno), Roddy and Rita make their way through the viscous seas of the sewer, not only getting home but saving the whole rodent - infested city.

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.

In time, it becomes clear that, demented or not, she is a more suitable spouse for the hapless musician than his fiancee.

So, without further ado, our hapless hero, wearing nothing more than a floral bath towel, gets sucked into an underground war between two very senior mob bosses; both of whom he allegedly owes a lot of money to.

Despite its obvious comparisons to The Hangover, Last Vegas possesses none of that film's distinctive aesthetic or scattered moments of subversion, and the appearance of Jerry Ferrara as the senior wolfpack's hapless fixer only cements the realization that what it resembles more than anything else is late - period Entourage.

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.

Even in the worst films, ENVY comes to mind, he is there, effortlessly finding something, anything, in a bad script and worse directing, to which a hapless audience can cling until the... Read More»

Cannavale (Danny Collins) is wasted in a role that doubles both as the hapless husband to Lang's ex father to the daughter Lang is trying to reconnect more with, and the face of the cops who get involved in the mix of things (and, conveniently, seems to be the first cop on the scene no matter where the action takes place).

Bruce Campbell, the hapless «hero» of the series, and our fates, is overweight, out of shape, and yet as charming as ever, as he quips, fights, and gets covered in Deadite blood once more.

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.

More diverse roles followed: the lovelorn time - traveller in Richard Curtis romcom About Time; the dead boyfriend in the Be Right Back episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror; the hapless musician in Frank Sidebottom - inspired road movie Frank.

Its most epic images, of a great and vicious battle, are confined to scattered flashbacks in the first act, nothing more than fragments of backstory that reveal the cowardice and hapless achievement of the simultaneous praised and despised John Boyd (Guy Pearce), who receives a promotion for taking a Mexican stronghold but is quietly exiled to a remote, wintry California fort to serve out of sight.

Sally Rogers as Wade's tough - talking wife Alice and Bronwyn James as his «mopey» daughter fight back against the male cabal, which is really more pathetic than oppressive — Tony Hirst's hapless alcoholic, Simon Rouse's semi-deaf codger, Craig Parkinson's mordant policeman, and Andy Nyman's former assistant hangman, defined by one ill - judged comment about a criminal's abnormally large privates.

Give me more super-noir, less hapless explosions.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

Homeless and hapless, the character soon evolved into one of the more startling and indelible in indie cinema, a bravado performance that justifiably gained lots of notice.

Homeless and hapless, the character soon evolved into one of the more startling and indelible in indie cinema, a bravado performance that justifiably gained...

You can carry only three hats at a time (you can grab more from a central dispenser), and once you're ready, you're supposed to go to the end of the play arena and press an activation button, which turns the whirring blades inside the hats on, pulping the hapless zombies» heads in a shower of gooey redness.

In that film, more the original rather than the musical remake, we were delighted by the inspired but appalling behavior of producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, his hapless accountant turned... Read More&ramore the original rather than the musical remake, we were delighted by the inspired but appalling behavior of producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, his hapless accountant turned... Read More&raMore»

In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the final installment of the three - part film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the dragon Smaug abandons his cave of treasures to unleash his wrath upon the hapless inhabitants of Lake -... more

For others, the shortfalls are already so severe that these hapless tykes are gravely unprepared to flourish in today's more «academic» kindergartens.

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.»