Sentences with phrase «while hapless»

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Blessed with the «ability to fly, invincibility and great hair,» the boy that would later grow up to be Metro Man (Brad Pitt channeling Elvis) proves to be his arch nemesis from an early age, while hapless Metromind winds up in prison serving 85 life sentences and decides to embrace his evil side... in the most good - natured way imaginable of course.

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 the hapless state Democratic Party has done almost nothing for the underdog campaign of Ricky Shira of Lakeland in preparation for Tuesday's special election to fill a vacancy in Florida House District 39, local grassroots organizations did.

«Polk grassroots Democrats pick up the slack in HD 39» via Bill Rufty of Florida Politics — While the hapless state Democratic Party has done almost nothing for the underdog campaign of Shira of Lakeland in preparation for the special election to fill a vacancy in Florida House District 39, local grassroots organizations did.

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.

Off the back of a dreadful display at Norwich at the weekend, Arsenal again showed no cutting edge up front, while hapless left - back Andre Santos was repeatedly and ruthlessly exposed by second - half goals from Dutch duo Klaas - Jan Huntelaar and Ibrahim Afellay.

A stunning RVP hattrick inspires Man United, while hapless Liverpool and Spurs continue to wait for first wins.

Not exact matches

Film parts have included playing Shazza, the foul - mouthed best friend to Renée Zellwegger's Bridget Jones (the third instalment will be released in September), while Clare in the Community, in which Sally plays politically correct - but - hapless social worker Clare, is in its fifth season on BBC Radio 4.

It was there in Manhattan he was born in 1819, at 6 Pearl Street, down by the Battery, while his ambitious, hard - driven father busily bankrupted the family with a hapless importing firm three blocks away.

The priest died in prison while his case was being adjudicated; but in 1583 the hapless Arden was hanged, drawn and quartered, and his head stuck on a spike on London bridge.

While City — and particularly Sergio Aguero — appeared toothless in that match, the real concern for Pellegrini ought to come in defence, where the Citizens were particularly hapless — not too dissimilar to Chelsea's struggles in recent weeks.

The England international helped himself to a hat - trick against the hapless Baggies, while Christian Eriksen forced Gareth McAuley into an own goal as the hosts coasted to victory to temporarily close the gap on Chelsea to four points.

I took a couple of years where my loyalties were conflicted, but after a while I became a fan of the hapless Devils, who were awful for the first 5 years of their existence.

and this will be the pattern until Wenger leaves... hapless tactically, cant motivate, cant spot weaknesses in players... ozil for lacazette made no sense, and the fact that deeney made a difference to them while giroud contributed absolutely nothing for us says it all for another very average player who should have been offloaded in the summer... can someone give the board louis enrique's phne numebr asap

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...

Squillachi and Koscielny were not good either, first half they were all over the place, Squillachi nodding down ANOTHER bread and butter clearance 7 yards into the path of Nani who skinned the post while it was Koscielnys rash gallop into MIDFIELD that led to their goal, in between that you also had a Van Der Sar punt down the field that Rooney took down uncontested with both CBs hapless on - lookers - THAT SHOULDNT HAPPEN.

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.»

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

Corrupt shitbag and journo tossing enthusiast Congressman Michael Grimm handily beat hapless dumb guy Dominic Recchia despite facing the voters while also staring at a 20 count federal indictment because, duh, Staten Island.

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

Down by 22 initially, hapless Heaney sank to 30 while calling the Siena poll, released «literally a day before the primary,» «irresponsible and a grave disservice to the voters.»

Needless to say, the hapless Clegg will be the last to be kept in the loop — while the biggest challenge lie with Ed Miliband, as the election hurdles are deliberately heaped ever higher for Labour.

For some species, males and female fireflies signal to each other in a multi-step mating ritual, while other species use flashes to lure and devour hapless interlopers.

This obviously decreases the risk to the politician, while conceding to public demands; what it does for the hapless double can only be imagined.

Starring Ali Zafar and Yaami Gautam, Total Siyapaa (Total Chaos) is about a series of unfortunate events that befall a good - hearted but hapless Pakistani boy while visiting his girlfriend's parents, leading to some of the funniest, chaotic and outrageous situations.

From here on out, War of the Worlds is one lengthy but always gripping chase film as the massive alien tripods stalk hapless humans over hill and dale, blasting them into ash with vicious, serpentine ease while the military runs afoul of their seemingly invincible shields.

Arriving in New York City following a nasty breakup, Slevin gets mugged while he's practically still on the airport tarmac; shortly thereafter, this hapless (and newly walletless) innocent winds up being mistaken for the deadbeat pal in whose apartment he's crashing, targeted by not one but two ice - cold criminal kingpins — archrivals, no less, who've spent the last two decades malevolently eyeing each other from matching penthouse suites situated just a few blocks apart.

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.

Cooper takes Stone (Alan Hale Jr.) alive, but the hapless blacksmith is later shot by the local sheriff (Charles McGraw) while trying to escape.

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.

The clues strewn in the hapless trio's path include a clucking chicken, a tiger in the bathroom and a baby in the closet, while what's missing — beyond the groom — include the vintage car, a mattress and a tooth.

DJ (Mitchell Musso) has spent years staking out the neighborhood crank, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), and his tumbledown house, the one in stark contrast to the otherwise pristine suburbs around it, all the while keeping a journal of exactly what he's been confiscating from the hapless neighborhood kids who trespass by so much as a millimeter on his sinister lawn.

(One Arizona vigilante considers any Mexican migrant who already speaks English a major villain, even after a hapless guy explains that he just picked up the lingo while working in a Cancun hotel.)

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

We meet Evelyn (Judi Dench) as the recent widow who discovers her beloved husband left her a mountain of debt; Douglas and Jean (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton) a hapless married couple who have invested their savings into their daughter's internet company; Muriel (Maggie Smith) is a racist and longtime housekeeper for the rich who has been put out to pasture while in need of a new hip; Graham (Tom Wilkinson) is a high court judge who is fed up with responsibility and seeking to reconnect with a long ago lover; Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are the lonely hearts looking for love, or in his case, loving.

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.

Her meteoric rise is punctuated by fun sequences that feature Maggie battering a succession of hapless women while gym rat Scrap (Freeman) provides the honeyed context of her progression through the WBA ranks.

Can you imagine Witherspoon, who embodies focus and precision, looking nervous and hapless while she waits for Keanu Reeves to figure out all the complicated tech stuff?

The Three Stooges (PG for slapstick violence, crude humor and double entendres) Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso co-star as Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively, in this madcap adventure which has the hapless trio landing their own reality show after uncovering a murder plot while trying to rescue their cash - strapped, childhood orphanage.

As Florence, an all - purpose «assistant» who helps the hapless Greenberg housesit while his brother's family is out of the country, Gerwig functions as an opposing force, as open and optimistic about human nature as he is sour and misanthropic.

Zahn and Jovovich are play against type effectively, and are terrific as the hapless lovebirds, while Olyplant and Sanchez are superb as their edgy new buddies.

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.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

And while Allen had already tread this territory before, most notably with Interiors (1978) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), the latter a masterpiece with a nice tonal balance — the comedy retained by Allen himself in a starring role — these ostentatious, upper - crust types could seem miles away from Allen's hapless fools or quixotic romantics.

Love After Love Russ Harbaugh's debut feature is rooted in the immediate, snatching snippets of life out of thin air, with Andie MacDowell luminous and raw as a woman grasping to put her life back together, while juggling her hapless, drunken and philandering sons.

While The Devil's Rejects does contain a number of genuinely creepy moments - particularly the sequence in which a hapless maid stumbles upon the mess left by the Firefly family - Zombie bogs things down with a plethora of broadly - played, overly wacky supporting characters.

But Poots never quite convinces in the focal role, while Wilson merely recycles his usual hapless routine and Forte gets lost in the shuffle as the token nice guy.

Meg Ryan first met her now ex-husband Dennis Quaid while working on Innerspace, a goofy sci - fi comedy about a cocky pilot (Quaid) miniaturized and inserted in the bloodstream of a hapless store clerk (played by Martin Short).

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...