Mr. Nichetti's hair changes with each role, but his hapless character is essentially the same.

It might take a try or two to get the rhythm down, but before long you'll be able to turn your hapless character into an invincible warrior.

Like that hapless character, I took buses and trains, and emerged soaked in perspiration and soot.

The hapless characters also lacked the crowns and gowns and accouterments of ersatz medievalism.

In this context, Ms. Bozzo might as well be a hapless character in her own show, a predicament she clearly does not like.

Gullivar is a more hapless character, however, paling beside the heroic and accomplished Carter.

And it occurred to all of us that poor Highwater's hapless character might be the perfect plug.

Hinton played Honey Diptwat, a crazy film director who is exploiting the hapless lead character.

The role of master of ceremonies is the one that binds the show's political message to the lives of its hapless characters.

Its most comic, hapless or corrupt characters - sometimes all three at once - are no caricatures.