Sentences with phrase «when hapless»

When a hapless skunk finds himself tied to a balloon, he travels past a parade, a high - rise apartment, a construction site, a zoo, a garbage truck, an ocean, a desert, and, finally, to an amusement park.

The film reaches its heights when the Sex Pistols perform (music provided here by an amalgamation of the Clash and the Pogues) and its lows when the hapless pair wither out on various drugs (you can feel their wooziness and despair).

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.

However, when the hapless schemes of Megamind actually manage to kill Metro Man, the blue - skinned, bulbous - headed supervillian is left to live life without an equal.

When our hapless overgrown boys wake up in their expensive Vegas hotel - suite - turned - trailer - park, the detailed destruction that inexplicably took place the night before is stupefying.

This may have happened when some hapless person was coinfected with both the African and Asian types — and the two strains hybridized into a new type before spreading into humans who then migrated to Europe, perhaps with the agricultural revolution 8000 years ago or so.

When the hapless bird sinks into the slush, the ice borers attack, dispatching it with bites of their sharp incisors.

Everything changed a year ago, when the hapless Jeremy Corbyn bowed to the inevitable and resigned.

At times against Cheltenham Mark Noble was playing centre back as the rest had gone walk about and Cheltenham were unlucky not to score when the hapless Masuaku and forever ambling Ogbonna were made to look foolish under an average cross.

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When you think about patent litigation today, you might picture scurrilous patent trolls lurking about, hoping to sue hapless small companies on frivolous charges of patent infringement.

hindos, and atheist are not» hapless victims», but deserve to be murdered and cast into eternal hell fire when the end times come.

When a freight train running slightly behind schedule interrupts a desperate chase, 8 hapless breakaway companions find themselves face - to - face with the Mur.

A YEAR AGO, when they were well established as the NFL's version of the hapless Los Angeles Clippers, the San Diego Chargers got a break: the first pick in a draft stocked with talented quarterbacks.

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..

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.

It took just seven minutes for the deadlock to be broken when 37 - year - old Toni spun around three Napoli defenders to net past a hapless Mariano Andujar for a scrappy opening goal.

When unlikely match - winner, Chris Smalling, so highly culpable in City's opening goal, volleyed past the hapless Ederson, I could only hope and pray; a) that my neighbors weren't in, or, b) the sound - proofing in the walls was as effective as it was supposed to be.

Sanchez wins the game when his fizzing shot squirms agonisingly under the hapless body of Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici.

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

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

The «connection» comes when people feel they have a voice, not when they are used as ventriloquists» hapless dummies.

It may be different when she is succeeded by the hapless old buffer that is Prince Charles.

Long Island Rep. Kathleen Rice had little to risk when she stepped forward to urge new leadership for her party's hapless House caucus.

When positively charged insects fly close to a spiderweb, for example, electrostatic charges cause the web to move toward them to actively capture the hapless fliers.

The Venus» flytrap counts the number of times prey comes in contact with its sensory hairs to determine the size of the hapless insect, when to shut its leaves to trap the creature, and even how much digestive juice to produce for its meal.

When the animals tripped the system, as did the hapless elephant in the video above, it triggered playback of a recording of a roaring cat or angry humans.

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.

(Chronic myeloid leukemia, a deadly blood cancer, for example, is caused when two chromosomes in white blood cells exchange fragments, resulting in a hapless fusion of genes that are normally kept apart.)

It is an opportunity for us to reflect on the language and... In real - world New York City, hopeless romantic Mindy and curmudgeonly divorcee Danny would... to lure in his hapless single friend, or when Sugar Mama Dating Sites Outrage — The Paris mayor's office has sought to ban a new dating website for wealthy... than the intended users of the site, whispering suggestively into the ear of a woman.

In 2007, when the show's 16th season pit seasoned players against fans of the show, it wasn't a shock to see the Favorites tribe completely dominate the hapless Fans.

They chase the screaming lawyers out into the night, and when William reopens the museum, one of the new displays is a pack of monsters pursuing a hapless victim Boswick, trapped in a eternal waxwork terror!

When Ruth decides to take control of her life and turns into a hapless but surprisingly successful avenger, audiences are allowed to take part vicariously in her revenge on the world.

As a plus Pathfinder's sporadic action sequences are spectacularly violent - limbs and heads fly and blood spurts arc gracefully through the air in slow motion as the mighty Vikings bring their axes and swords down upon hapless natives, but when the characters aren't scuffling you'll begin to wonder what happened to the plot, or what's going on inside the characters» heads.

When notified, Kittridge was incensed, and ordered Barnes to keep it top - secret: «It never happened,» while the hapless CIA analyst was immediately reassigned to a radar tower in Alaska.

While she ultimately becomes COMPASSIONATE through her concern for Nell (who is targeted by the house when other people aren't around), Theo fails to look even remotely frightened as major portions of the house are blowing up in her face or chasing our hapless heroes.

When a harried businessman and a hapless crook collide on the biggest day of both their careers, the only road seems to lead straight to comic disaster.

This is a movie about a Great Dane with Owen Wilson's (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) voice who interrupts a marital kiss between Pace (When in Rome, A Single Man) and Greer's (27 Dresses, American Dreamz) hapless suburbanites by farting in as smelly a manner as possible, and then saying to us — we can, dear god, hear Marmaduke talk — «I know it's juvenile, but it's all I've got.»

«You never know what weirdness you'll find in the sewers as a hapless treatment worker discovers when he enters the diabolical world of Charles Band's HIDEOUS!

When «Retired, Extremely Dangerous» Frank Moses (Willis) has his quiet life disrupted by trigger - happy commandos he goes on the run, kidnapping a hapless pension clerk (Parker) to protect her from a ruthless high - tech hitman (Urban) who's chasing him.

A gentle spoof of arch-patriots running amok when a Soviet sub runs aground on an East Coast resort, Norman Jewison's film stars Carl Reiner as a hapless vacationer, Alan Arkin as a Soviet sailor and Jonathan Winters as a bungling cop.

Along the way, these hapless idiots brush with failure, but it's only when they achieve success that their world really begins to fall apart.

When hard «Äìworking TV producer Becky Fuller (McAdams) is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life.

A lurid, bludgeoning, and ultraviolent (i.e., routine) turn - of - the - millennium story about a hapless misfit who joins the crew of a bulging - muscled, tattooed, but savvy dealer bent on seizing control of the Reykjavik drug trade, it's sleazily enjoyable and completely amoral fare, and should make a nice calling card for Axelsson when he makes the rounds in Hollywood.

Megamind (PG for action and mild epithets) Animated adventure in 3 - D about a hapless, evil villain (Will Ferrell) who decides to align himself with the forces of good after the demise of his longtime superhero adversary (Brad Pitt) when he unwittingly creates a diabolical scoundrel (Jonah Hill) bent on world domination.

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.

When young Paula (Julia Stiles) arrives to a presentation late, Julie unleashes all her fears and frustrations on the hapless girl.

For instance, one of the most electric scenes of the movie year occurs late in the action, when Rockwell's hapless deputy drowns his sorrows in a bar.

When fate lands three hapless men — an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small - time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong - willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni)-- in a Louisiana prison, their singular adventure begins.

Rusty is a pilot for an airline called «Econo - Air,» and in the opening scene, he's given his hapless nice - guy props by an aged colleague who's clearly suffering from dementia, and who nearly crashes the plane when Rusty leaves the cockpit for a bathroom break.

When she?s confronted by police, arrested and tried for her doings, we?re all forced to realize that hapless is the women who tries to help, and to reconsider just what a woman?s right to choose means.