Henry was the most hapless of monarchs.
But Brunhild is ill content; though she saw Siegfried do homage to Gunther at Isenstein she is not convinced, and believes that Siegfried should have been her husband; and on the bridal night she vents her ill humour on the hapless Gunther by tying him up in a knot and hanging him on the wall.
He was treating her the way he did every other hapless, foolish, unsuspecting human he pulled down to Hell.
The man's stance suggests that he is engaged in a slapstick comedy routine, kicking the backside of the hapless fellow in front.
The hapless EU minister Denis MacShane will demand the European Army intervene, to universal derision.
