Word: hapless
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...will it happen in time for him to beat the market for the 15th straight year? Miller knows the odds are against him. If only he had bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
...will it happen in time for him to beat the market for the 15th straight year? Miller knows the odds are against him. If only he had bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
...strikes and kills the bereaved parents’ surviving son, and the gathered throng of mourners storms his vehicle and conspires to lynch him by immolation. After filming several of the mob’s abortive attempts to set the motorist ablaze, Bonilla decides to intervene and prevent the hapless driver’s execution. Bonilla is able to delay the mob until police can arrest their intended victim, and for this act of “bravery,” Bonilla receives the dubious title “hero...
...could blame him? Anyone with Murphy’s track record—from the accurately but unfortunately named Anders Blewett ’03 to hapless senior Jim Morocco, no longer on the team—would be hard-pressed not to shudder, if only from force of habit, at the thought of his special teams unit trudging out onto the field for a game-deciding kick...
...uncaring? Was it when he said that he didn't "think anybody expected" the New Orleans levees to give way, though that very possibility had been forecast for years? Was it when he arrived in Mobile, Ala., a full four days after the storm made landfall, and praised his hapless Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President. Or was it that odd moment when he promised to rebuild Mississippi...