Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is a feckless oaf with a wide grin, a bong, and four lazy housemates who are too old to be boys but will never, unless fate takes a hand, bother to grow into men.
But the government is trying hard to avoid the impression that it will encourage the feckless into a spending spree.
Or maybe your idea of adulthood got its polish on a feckless trip to Iceland.
One forgets how easy it would have been for Ivanka to have chosen the life of a feckless socialite, as her contemporary Paris Hilton did.
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By and large, political leaders in Europe are a feckless lot.
In California, a college professor (Robert Redford) tries to spur a feckless student (Andrew Garfield) to involve himself more boldly in the world, whatever form that may take.
He captures both the unpredictable menace of Mesrine and his near-comical showmanship the sense of a feckless free spirit who grew convinced, thanks in large part to the media, that he was something greater.
Yet the IRS seems to go overboard, often painting an abused spouse as a willing accomplice to her tax-cheat husband or a feckless ignoramus spending money she should have known was owed for taxes.
One looks at a handsome young stage actor like Stephen Campbell Moore, who, as the hero, Adam Fenwick-Symes, has penetrating eyes, and one thinks, Why is this fine-looking young man behaving in such a feckless and stupid way?
The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.
"We're dealing with feckless politicians wanting to extend a giveaway because of the optics, " despite the government's huge budget deficit, he said.
Resuming Vile Bodies, he took a more vengeful course that would indict the fallen, feckless world that had betrayed him. (He would later, in A Handful of Dust, more roundly and explicitly indict his ex-wife).
Three-quarters of Germans opposed the last expansion of the EFSF, which they see as a transfer of money from virtuous countries to feckless ones.
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Saying that the French are great winemakers, lovers, or connoisseurs is not a stereotype, but saying that the French are feckless and effete is.
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But look, he has also on other occasions said, when he gets - once John McCain gets to the required number of delegates - and that really is feckless, and I think Mike Huckabee will see it that way a little later on this week - and pull out.
That the rate mechanism is charitably feckless in an unstable world speaks to the importance of the Treasury and Fed adopting a price rule.
If we were watching a Hollywood comedy, this would be a cue for careful bonding, with the kid gradually drawn out of himself and the feckless adult impelled to take responsibility.
She was the aunt type: a true Caribbean matriarch (though unmarried and childless), ruling the roost and dispensing wisdom with no feckless male around to steal the limelight.
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