haplessness

But on a night the fearsome Yankees were held to two hits, and shut out for the first time this season, their haplessness was a collective effort.

Reader - MassLive.com 2009

In soprano Sang-Eun Lee, the company found a Gilda who could place every note with exquisite accuracy while projecting a full palette of innocent haplessness, filial devotion and passion.

Performing Arts: Kelli O'Hara lights up the Kennedy Center Nelson Pressley 2010

And here the person saying this is likely to shrug with an air of amiable haplessness.

John Shore: Is God's Justice Different Than Ours? John Shore 2011

I was coming to see the mess that adults had made of things in Vietnam, but also seeing something of their haplessness.

First Love & Other Obsessions Gary Percesepe 2011

Normally sympathetic media starting to comment on his haplessness, check.

Sen. Graham knocks around AG Holder on KSM. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

Jane Hamsher made an early call on how the WH would cave to Big Pharma and Big Insurance, and also understood early on the haplessness and venality of MA candidate Coakley.

Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010

Following his most infamous display of haplessness, during a Test in Sydney, he was suspended pending investigation by the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.

New Zealand's boundary bounty should not be demeaned by cries of 'fix' 2011

Their haplessness, ignorance and apathy are by-products of that still more basic corruption — and credulity is in fact a type of corruption in the current social/political arena writ large.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010

And there was more despair for toxic co-dependents Tracy (pregnant) and Steve (thick) whose mutual haplessness led to tentative groping sessions outside the Rovers.

World Of Lather 2011

And here the person saying this is likely to shrug with an air of amiable haplessness.

John Shore: Is God's Justice Different Than Ours? John Shore 2011