| Chaos reigned as officials and reporters haplessly endeavoured to stay calm through the calamity and make some sense of the senseless. |
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| At lunch he sat across from me, looking disconsolate and remaining totally uncommunicative, egg and mayonnaise streaming haplessly down his face. |
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| Small creatures tiptoe around, harvesting crumbs of happiness falling haplessly in their path. |
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| Plucky locals, not all in uniform, fired haplessly at them with AK-47s and the odd machinegun. |
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| Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands. |
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| He will reintroduce the 10p income-tax rate that his predecessor, Gordon Brown, haplessly scrapped in his final budget as chancellor of the exchequer. |
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| The scene would often be repeated in the months ahead: unable to do much more than talk or adopt toothless declarations in the face of crises and conflicts, the CSCE would stand haplessly by. |
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| The EU is also dissatisfied with the haplessly run finance ministry, which has seen six ministers since last year's elections. The third big central European economy is the Czech Republic. |
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| The dopiness of it, however, may be an indication not so much of cinematic ineptitude as of the changes in a movie culture that was once devoted to adults and is now rather haplessly and redundantly devoted to kids. |
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| But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse. |
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