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I was practically weeping--weeping, I tell you--when I read the excerpt from the letter the former, great publisher of the Los Angeles Times wrote, castigating Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., and company for the sheer, unmitigated crap (my paraphrasing here) the ex-cereal magnate has been pulling since he took over the now hapless paper.
Worse, Grant's linguistically hapless gangster--Mickey Blue Eyes--never makes a climactic reappearance, so the filmmakers waste their best invention.
In 1993, the New York Times ran a story about a hapless 24-year-old serving 10 years in federal prison for agreeing to help an undercover agent find someone selling LSD at a Grateful Dead concert.
A hapless auditor might conceivably spend several minutes thinking the speaker is discussing, say, roles , when he's actually discussing rolls.
Cats only vaguely cry meow (James Joyce bravely tried mkgnao ), hapless pigs have the choice of only oink or ooee , horses bray neigh and mules hee-haw .