First, hinging stories on Jess's haplessness was a boring mistake.
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But they find a little humor in that haplessness, too.
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The existing giants took full advantage of Western governments' haplessness.
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Carter, determined to solve the case himself, mocks Lee's haplessness.
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But at other moments, the Browns were a study in haplessness.
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It was so long ago—and close calls, and utter haplessness.
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The goal duly arrived, involving considerable haplessness from a number of parties.
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It is not primarily a window into the haplessness of Mr Trump's foreign policy.
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Twitter's defining characteristic as a company, to my mind, is a kind of generalized haplessness.
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Selina is back on the campaign trail, where haplessness and maneuvering abound in equal measure.
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The haplessness of the Republican establishment in the face of Trumpism is a case in point.
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This haplessness should come as some relief to liberals, just as Carter's failed presidency did to conservatives.
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Jeff Sessions has become a symbol of haplessness and humiliation, repeatedly undermined by his boss, the president.
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As Jack, the accidental star, Patel is ideal, precisely because he's so unstarry, radiating haplessness and hope.
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His is not the most athletic-looking gait, and the braces on his knee and elbow hint at haplessness.
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Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton surely possess two of the most photogenic faces of the 20th century, contrasting images of haplessness and stoicism.
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Michal Kurtyka, the amiable Polish bureaucrat who chaired the proceedings, turned apparent haplessness into a virtue, leaving delegates space to thrash out their differences.
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Mr Trump has surrounded himself with amateurish and ideological advisers, led by Stephen Bannon, who have been responsible for much of the administration's early haplessness.
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Michal Kurtyka, the amiable Polish bureaucrat who chaired the proceedings, turned apparent haplessness into a virtue, by leaving delegates space to thrash out their differences.
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We are in the presence of a singular anatomy, one that combines the calculated haplessness of Charlie Chaplin and the swashbuckling brio of Douglas Fairbanks.
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The reversion to black may be easier to comprehend, as the haplessness of Theresa May's government and worries over Brexit have darkened the outlook for drivers.
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His Peter is bright, winning, good with a quip, and fully convincing as a kid whose perpetual haplessness never gets in the way of his heroism.
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Mr Trump has surrounded himself with a clutch of amateurish and ideological advisers, led by Stephen Bannon, who have been responsible for much of his administration's early haplessness.
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At least the reversion to black is easier to comprehend, as the haplessness of Theresa May's government and worries over Brexit have darkened the outlook for Britain's drivers.
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There's no getting around the risk here: If Republicans, through zealotry and haplessness, destroy Obamacare, and leave millions of uninsured Americans in the lurch, the human toll will be real.
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Supposed federal omnipotence and overreach became flat-footed haplessness in one brief, powerful court session, as the 12 jurors were polled about their conclusions, rejecting everything about the government's case.
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When both men are wandering around on their own, The Nice Guys resembles an Elmore Leonard crime novel, full of barely connected, colorful characters whose haplessness keeps them from greater things.
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Schumer's inability to excoriate Trump is not simply a personal failure of the minority leader, but a reflection of the general haplessness of Washington Democrats when it comes to foreign policy.
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In smaller horror movies, like Siren, The Roost, or The Gingerdead Man, dying phone batteries are played off as a sign of the main characters' haplessness or lack of attention to detail.
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Unhappy with the direction of the franchise and the chaos and haplessness of Phil Jackson's reign as team president, Porzingis blew off his season-concluding exit meeting with Jackson two weeks ago.
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He has bumbled his way from one government post to another, accused of making a hash of each, and becoming a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain.
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Several hundred thousand e-books had also been sold, and readers as far away as Kenya claimed to be illegally circulating an electronic PDF version of Mr Wolff's tale of eye-watering haplessness and bloodletting.
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He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness.
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"All right, this is a high-energy event," said Ingoglia, at once harkening back to both the "please clap" haplessness of Jeb Bush and the devastating "low-energy" label Trump tagged Jeb with when they were White House rivals.
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Pro-government candidates are expected to do well in elections for the local assembly on September 2619th, despite the authorities' apparent haplessness in the face of Hato, which flooded the old town and cut power to much of the territory.
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During his tenure on the television series "Breaking Bad," the actor Aaron Paul, as the foil to Bryan Cranston's Walter White, showed an adroit skill at portraying the haplessness that can lie just below the surface of a brash game face.
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After a spell in a crowded dormitory in Paris, during which Dheepan earns money selling trinkets and batteries on the street, the three are granted asylum, thanks to the intervention of a sympathetic interpreter and the benign haplessness of the French state.
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He spoke rapidly, in a futile effort to keep pace with the speed of his own thoughts, constantly interrupting himself with muttered asides — a quote from the symbolist playwright Alfred Jarry, a self-deprecating story about his haplessness with women, a gripe about a Publishers Weekly review from the mid-21985s.
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Today, if you're a New York fan particularly, with the Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils and Islanders all wallowing in the kind of meh play that drains the juice out of both hope and despair, and particularly on Super Bowl Sunday with our football franchises in a catastrophic state of haplessness, you're fundamentally lost.
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But elevating and exalting process over outcomes is also a lot easier to do when the outcome doesn't really matter that much, and the signal failures of this body of tactical retreats in recent years—think of Obama's principled dedication, in the Affordable Care Act, to crafting A Deal Everyone Could Live With instead of one that would keep the maximum number of people alive—speak to something worse and more worrying than haplessness.
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And former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has been indicted for lying in the Russia probe, also didn't seem to think Trump would win: Mike Flynn, Trump's future National Security Adviser, who became Trump's opening act at campaign rallies and whom Trump loved to hear complain about the CIA and the haplessness of American spies, had been told by friends that it had not been a good idea to take $45,000 from the Russians for a speech.
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Much of the humour is verbal as characters take a literal interpretation of what others say, use redundant expressions and non- sequiturs. Alongside this verbal aspect there was more conventional humour. Mallard encountered bizarre behaviour from his featured characters and their counterparts. For all his own mediocrity and haplessness he could appear sane and competent compared to those alongside him.
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Zafar was tried and charged on four counts: On the 20th day of the trial Bahadur Shah II defended himself against these charges. Bahadur Shah, in his defense, stated his complete haplessness before the will of the sepoys. The sepoys apparently used to affix his seal on empty envelopes, the contents of which he was absolutely unaware. While the emperor may have been overstating his impotence before the sepoys, the fact remains that the sepoys had felt powerful enough to dictate terms to anybody.
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When Lady Gaga allegedly refused to allow "Weird Al" Yankovic to parody her single "Born This Way," Thompson broke the news that it was Gaga's manager who had denied the request without her knowledge. Once brought to her attention, Lady Gaga approved Yankovic's parody. As a freelance entertainment and humor writer, Thompson has been published in Paste magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and McSweeney’s. In 1999, he also co-founded The Onion’s softball team, the haplessness of which he chronicled in loving but often grisly detail at www.teamonion.com.
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Mump (the Joey), played by Kennard, is the natural leader; authoritative, pompous, bullying, scheming and manipulative, alternately erupting in towering violent rages and completely collapsing from terror. Smoot (the Auguste), played by Turner, is the perpetual innocent; playful, childlike, silly, bullied by Mump but occasionally standing up to him. The plays occur in a world of surrealistic set design, with simple props combined with haunting and evocative music (by Greg Morrison) and sound effects providing an overall impression of a vast and uncaring universe inhabited by powers beyond the scale of mere Ummonians. The characters draw the audience in by directly interacting with them in a responsive manner, which may underline their haplessness at the whims of social pressure.
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By the end of the second song, I really knew and by the end of the third I was laughing, it was so damn good." Gutch also compared Krueger's music favorably to that of Randy Newman. A similar comparison was made by Keith Harris, who wrote that "...[Krueger's] ability to inhabit characters (“The Gospel According to Carl” is worthy of a kinder Randy Newman) is equaled by his insight into his own romantic haplessness". In describing the song "Kenny’s (It’s Always Christmas in This Bar)", the opening track from NowTHEN, Greil Marcus wrote, "I can’t remember the last time I said yes to a song out loud in its first three seconds. In the instant when I realized that Krueger...was something different, I also felt as if I’d been listening to this song half my life.
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Tik-Tok was a main character in Disney's Return to Oz, adapted from The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. His legs are very stout and he speaks with his mustache rather than his teeth. In the movie, he is the entire Royal Army of Oz, which is ironic considering his general haplessness, partly from the character's in-book inability to wind up his clockworks for himself. In an interview for the Elstree project, director Walter Murch explained that Tik-Tok's physical performance was created by acrobat Michael Sundin: "he would put his legs down into Tik-Tok's legs, and then he would bend over looking through his legs, through his thighs, and then he would cross his arms [across his chest] to operate Tik-Tok's arms." He used an LCD feed inside the costume to monitor his movements.
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I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy", and also "Atkinson doesn't have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot's Holiday inspired the title). He's funniest when mugging shamelessly..." Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that "the disasters instigated by Bean's haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable" but said that one scene later in the film is worth sticking around for. Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said "If you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be converted by this trifle." and also "If the title sounds familiar, it's because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot's Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish.
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In fact, a Canadian search-and-rescue team actually made it to a New Orleans suburb five days before U.S. aid arrived. Others have identified political conservatism as the overriding cause of problems in the way the disaster was handled. These critics argue that the alleged unreadiness of the United States National Guard, negligence of federal authorities, and haplessness of officials such as Michael Brown did not represent incompetence on the part of the federal authorities, but were instead natural and deliberate consequences of the conservative philosophy embraced by the Bush administration, especially "sink or swim" policies to force reductions in government expenditure and privatize key government responsibilities such as disaster preparedness, both of which resulted in the systematic dismantling of FEMA by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Criticism led to the resignation of FEMA director Michael Brown, and eventually, Bush himself accepted personal responsibility for what he deemed "serious problems in the federal government's response" in a September 15, 2005 press conference.
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