Word: hapless
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...often a student can make the choice between living in a cramped bedroom or a common room. However, there are many situations in which bedrooms simply can't reasonably accommodate more students (this often happens in the case of "n minus one" rooms), and it is then that hapless individuals are stuck in common rooms and left to flounder. Harvard is doing an inexcusable disservice to its tenants, who have no choice but to pay thousands for a room and then hope for the best...
...Joffe has Demi throw twee tea parties which go horribly awry when all the guests are sentenced to hang for witchcraft. The evil magistrate has tightened the nooses round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending...
...scored three times in the first 12 minutes or so, and didn't ever stop. Fairfield was playing a man down, thanks to a red card late in the first half (memo to Fairfield: playing a man down IS NOT A GOOD THING). Describing its second half effort as "hapless" is too kind...
That left the hapless Bliley to convene a meeting of long-distance lobbyists in the Commerce Committee hearing room on July 13 to convey the grim news. Stunned, the lobbyists began a desperate effort to find someone to whom they could plead their case. "Nobody wants to talk to us," complained a lobbyist for the long-distance coalition early in the week. "Nobody wants to negotiate. Something is fishy here...
...understand why Americans love their sitcoms. The characters are all transparent, and the plots are utterly mundane. Most of the shows follow a hapless person through a never--ending series of embarrassing situation. Still, any attempts at absurd humor falls flat and is generally replaced by ludicrous slapstick...