ne' er-do-well

A teen, Karin, is left by her ne’er-do-well widowed father in the care of her grandfather at a temple.

In stretches, as Riedinger directs her energies toward Liane’s development as an influencer and not her embittered mother or ne’er-do-well love interest, “Wild Diamond” constructs a working-class, Dardennes-style equivalent of that half-joking line about the Kardashian empire, “The devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder.”

In the comments, Australians weighed in on instances where their shoes had not, in fact, been there when they got back — Birkenstocks lifted by a ne’er-do-well, for instance, or a treasured pair of glitter jelly shoes gone for good.

“What’s missing, despite years of investigation, is the smoking gun that connects Joe Biden to his ne’er-do-well son’s corruption,” Mr. Buck said.

“There’s a whole ecosystem of ne’er-do-well kind of folks who are in this business,” he said.