Word: hapless
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...mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...
...managed to follow all of this, you will no doubt be able to understand why Joan Wilder, romance author extraordinaire, would want to help our hapless holy man escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...
Harvard's running game was taking its toll on the hapless Tigers. With three minutes and running alongside Keffer on a Harvard fast break...
...gifted supporting cast manage to suggest most of them despite Director Brian Murray's heavy-handed style, which emphasizes pandemonium rather than character study. The slender plot depicts the artsy Bliss family at play in their country home. Their main amusement is the calculated tormenting of four hapless weekend visitors, each of whom winds up enmeshed by some member of the family in a less than blissful, indeed heartlessly feigned, romance...
...most hapless figure in the book is a muscle-bound liberal who wants to save the property. He fails. Too many tenants prefer their own chaos to someone else's order, in this case the Gorilla Management Co.'s. Glynn concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, and none too soon. By the time the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat wrestle for the soul of the building, the author's inspired riffs on urban rot have been overworked as allegory. But not before a strong and exuberant talent has shown his stuff...