"I knew there was a hapless fool involved."

"Well, thanks so much for the vote of confidence, but the hapless fool was me," she replied crisply.

The hapless fools then mutter about inspiration or some such rot before turning tail and fleeing.

Indeed, the price for many fathers whose wives take primary day-to-day responsibility for child-rearing is the sense of being a hapless but well-intentioned fool who makes mistakes at every turn.

The songs are often narrated by a hapless fool for love.

He had once been a prisoner of the cruel illithids, a helpless, hapless fool, his mind nearly broken by their overpowering wills.

Join my captain, join us in success, turn and rend the doomed and hapless fools who lead you!

"They will be sorrier still, the hapless fools."

Flaam assured him that should he perform adequately, some other hapless fool would be substituted in the Agony Booth.

I shuddered to think what would have happened if I had been standing in the middle of the path like the hapless fool I was when they had rounded the comer.