Word: hapless
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Hundreds of people were trying to pack their way through the single front door, while a hapless police officer attempted to regulate. Stemming from the mass, a trail of people curved around the corner where more police officers looked to be quietly praying a riot didn’t erupt. Teams of local cable news camera vans were parked out front...
...sign of a fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now dwindling audiences are spurring producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. Take the hapless citizens of Walford, a fictional London borough that is the setting for EastEnders, one of Britain's top-rated soaps. Recent episodes have seen a troubled adolescent kidnap his estranged stepfather, chip-shop owner Ian Beale, to exact revenge for his psychopathic mother's death in prison. Ian's current...
...rankings do not lie. At Kolkata's packed derby match, the play is hapless. But it is roared on in an atmosphere of intensity and passion unparalleled anywhere else in Asia. The enmity between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, the teams respectively of the city's West and East Bengali populations, mirrors the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow's Celtic versus Rangers. It stretches back before Indian independence and is embedded into the very fabric of Kolkata society. Prices for prawn and hilsa, the preferred seafood of each community, fluctuate depending on the results of the clubs' matches. An entire...
...early 90’s, Holy Cross seems on the verge of reasserting itself as a top division team. Gunslinger Dominic Randolph has the ‘Saders putting up points in bunches. They followed a 31-point effort against Harvard with 55 big ones versus hapless Georgetown...
...tickets went on sale last Friday, this old city’s heart—broken and embittered after 20 years of pure misery—started pumping the same green blood that fueled a 30-year obsession with arguably the NBA’s best franchise.And I, the hapless Midwesterner unfamiliar with this city and its inexplicable and eternal obsessions, had a front row seat (albeit not a comfortable one). I descended upon T.D. Banknorth Garden with a friend to buy Celtics tickets, using my class-free Friday to grab some seats to games against the Pistons...