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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.
Soon after his return, Maggs encounters Tobias Oates, a novelist and self-styled "cartographer" of the "Criminal Mind," of which Maggs is soon forced to become the hapless embodiment.
Worse, Grant's linguistically hapless gangster--Mickey Blue Eyes--never makes a climactic reappearance, so the filmmakers waste their best invention.
If only the same fate had befallen Burn Hollywood Burn . Critics have called it "bilious," "ham-handed," "a hapless display ...
Shakespeare, at a remove of four centuries, provides a hapless hunting ground for nice misinterpretations, either through misquotation or quoting out of context.