1 This hapless creature had never experienced a moment of pleasure.

2 Many children are hapless victims of this war.

3 All of them were hapless victims of this hurricane.

4 The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.

5 Some were lost by hapless temps.

6 Several hapless hikers got caught in the snowstorm.

7 He is hapless, passive and maybe just a wee bit smug.

8 The hapless Sidney Barnett was found guilty of assault and severely reprimanded by the court.

9 The hapless governor, who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan's authority, was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801.

10 Or, in keeping with theme week, the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

11 The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.

12 It's like those alien stories where hapless travellers are beamed up by future scientists from other worlds.

13 Fernando de la Rua, the country's hapless president, is exuding quiet confidence.

14 Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he'd been playing for the past few weeks!

15 All went through him, and the hapless McCann, theoretically marking him, was out of his depth.

16 Duckham is a much more hapless figure: rather a constrained Everyman, almost a bore in fact.

17 The men encircled the hapless animals, beating and clubbing them, forcing them forward up the ramp.

18 Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women.

19 That wolf? Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he'd been playing for the past few weeks!

20 The entire burden of hatching, feeding and caring for the young cuckoo falls on the hapless foster parents.

21 Charles Dickens come back, there is plenty of material for a new novel about pitiless employers and hapless employees.

22 I decided to be guided by a modified version of the National Parks Service motto, updated for hapless burglars.

23 The swing to Gore in the recounts in Broward and hapless Palm Beach counties helped cement the party too.

24 It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd.

25 The weary elders of the 1980s take revenge at last upon the hapless victims of the 1960s.

26 In the nick of time, they discovered her in a state of hapless stage fright.

27 It is also a sort of high-tech snare, with State Police as hunters and hundreds of hapless cabbies their sorry prey.

28 The world's biggest aircraft-leasing firm will now try to squeeze concessions from its hapless bondholders.

29 Both had ended in the humiliation of that brawl at a dance and me taking a swing at a hapless policeman.

30 Furniture is strewn down the road, but there is no sign of the hapless hero.

1 This hapless creature had never experienced a moment of pleasure.

2 All of them were hapless victims of this hurricane.

31 For four days and nights, communal frenzy added a tragic dimension to this hapless and beleaguered city.

32 The Hapless family were placed in a room which was staff accommodation, overlooking the kitchens.

33 Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point.

34 Hapless, hopelessly clumsy Gilligan is washed ashore along with the competent, self-assured skipper.

35 They came to this swampland and found a team to punish, those hapless New York Jets.

36 The thought that some hapless youth might have their future career threatened by a drugs record for one joint seems overly Draconian.

37 But Frank Bascombe, for all his hapless domestic incompetence and elaborate self-pity, was interesting and kind of likable.

38 The two hapless groups of men now mostly hid, endured, and awaited their opportunity to fire back or escape.

39 As a means of survival, these soldiers resorted to the rebels' strategy of terrorizing and looting from the hapless civilians.

40 Without hapless stationmaster, also do not have lucky stationmaster.

41 Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.

42 the hapless victims of exploitation.

43 The hapless Dant è s was doomed.

44 His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.

45 I hope everyone can pray for the hapless victims in the diaster.

46 Like King Canute, foreign governments occasional-ly try to stop the rising tide of American cultural in-fluence,(/hapless.html) and like the hapless king they always fail.

47 After telling their hapless targets that there is "no pressure" to take part, the environmental organizers press a magic button, and presto, another dissenter liquidated — literally.

48 Don't let some hapless potential partner wait needlessly at your meeting place.

49 Like other mosasaurs, Halisaurus has extra teeth called pterygoid teeth, that it uses to hold on to its prey while its jaw moves forward to swallow the hapless victim whole.

50 While the story sounds impressive, he seems ungainly for such a bit more hapless than debonair.

51 When the Hawks took the Celtics to Game Seven last season, that was massive considering everyone expected the Green Machine to steamroll the hapless Hawks.

52 A burst of laughter from the whole band of scholars greeted the unfortunate name of the hapless Court furrier.

53 Standing at the head of our second - grade class that morning , John Evans was a hapless sight.

54 Mr Mbeki will argue that economic strangulation would hurt the hapless Zimbabwean masses more than the pampered elite around Mr Mugabe.

55 Many in Germany saw the modest 74 - year - old as a hapless victim of the credit crunch.

56 Some of the greatest moments of this book recall McCourt's school days with humourless masters and 7)hapless classmates.

57 If it is honest journeywork, yet lacks purchasers, at most you may call yourself a hapless tradesman.

58 As the battle ensues between them , destruction and devastation falls on the hapless city.

59 Carrot-munching Bugs Bunny was always being pursued by his human nemesis, hunter Elmer Fudd; yet, time and time again, Bugs would narrowly escape, outwitting the hapless Fudd.

60 All those who could sympathize with you were invariably in the same hapless situation.

61 Put the shoe down, the water overflowing drenched a large piece of floor, which did not get the picture to pop out of a hapless small binary (a butterfly fish).

62 He let the hapless Germans talks , then crushed them with scathing, often witty abuse.

63 I begin to feel like William Boot in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's novel about a hapless war correspondent who sets out for Africa with carriage-loads of gear, including cleft-sticks to carry his dispatches.

64 The hapless George Bush is partly to blame for this: his approvalare now sub - Nixonian.

65 And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace walls.

66 Pity Georgia's bedraggled first infantry brigade. And its second. And its hapless navy.

67 I saw my first streetwalker, hitting on a hapless archetype: a pathetic-looking guy wearing a dark suit, crew cut, and thick black horn-rimmed glasses and carrying a briefcase.

68 The hapless milquetoast is wanted for being an" alien" and he is captured by a band of guerrillas who want to recruit him to their cause.

69 A country like Somalia is incapable of forming and executing state policy; it is a hapless state.

70 This dialog is a result of the programmer inflicting the implementation-model of the disk file system on the hapless user.

71 How should encounter a lot of hapless things to do?

72 Platoon warming tents were set up in Koto -ri, a hapless little hamlet.

73 If has other company to see have a good swim refluent and go up and become really interested, want crawlily also to appear on the market, I estimate, you can make a typical hapless egg likely.

74 The hapless, mangled galaxy may have once looked more like our Milky Way, a pinwheel-shaped galaxy.

75 With another corps in reserve, and a few Sukhoi fighter planes deployed last year to neighbouring Assam, they are a meaty border force, unlike their hapless predecessors.

76 At first, Chan seems to be a hapless patsy to Tucker's bullying.

77 The hapless Ms Aston would be publicly disgraced and would have to resign forthwith.