haplessness

That image of haplessness continued to haunt him in his unsuccessful campaigns to take over as prime minister — a dream that ended in 1992, when he lost national elections and quit as Labour Party leader.

Leveraging his benign dad persona, he paints a scathing portrait of our culture post-pandemic that makes you laugh at our cruelty, haplessness and delusions.

Their skills — her easy intelligence and his Greg-from-“Succession”-adjacent haplessness — are occasionally discernible when things slow down and they get to act like people sharing a space, or, as the story so memorably outlined, not sharing one.

I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.

Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin play the parental units with unabashed, even unhinged, broadness, against which Devine’s haplessness really sings.