It is wholly unsatisfactory to have two directives addressing the same issue with different approaches and mechanisms and, for the hapless farming community, dual enforcement.
But the hapless reader finds it rather difficult to pick his way through the maze of directives.
How many of us have heard hapless tales like this from our constituents, despite the existence of a timeshare directive?
Their effects are not limited to the individual user who brings things on himself, as any hapless victim of a drunken driver can attest.
The hapless singer chosen to solve the puzzle would initially try to sing the pitches given, but very soon would find that they are utterly wrong.
And he is happy to subscribe to a linear narrative of technological progress in which he positions the hapless brush, referring to it as 'not particularly advanced'.
At the same time, he is presented as a kind of hapless innocent on the domestic front, duped occasionally by his servants and not adept at housekeeping.
Yes, the doctor here is the stolid skipper while the layman is the hapless landlubber.
