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.
In his mid-20s Scott Harrison, by his own admission, was a feckless New York City party boy, a nightclub promoter who lived amidst the bright lights, booze and cocaine of his chosen scene.
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Or maybe your idea of adulthood got its polish on a feckless trip to Iceland.
For Americans to leave this threat to Israel, a beleaguered democracy of 7 million, is a feckless non-policy.
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?
But the prince has wrecked many international friendships with a feckless record, and with the rekindling of his old alliance with elements of the communist Khmers Rouges, who once ran Cambodia and may have killed up to 2m of its people.
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.
Press further and Republican grassroots angst about government spending is, a lot of the time, a belief that under Barack Obama, the country has drifted into un-American levels of redistribution from hard-working taxpayers to a more feckless underclass.
"We're dealing with feckless politicians wanting to extend a giveaway because of the optics, " despite the government's huge budget deficit, he said.
Even if he fails, the governors could be a counterweight to the feckless Congress and the lawless social movements.
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).
And what about targeting children whose parents are too poor, too feckless or too drugged to give them a decent upbringing?
You, the feckless youth sleeping until 12 noon, are a massive credit risk but your parents will theoretically lose their home if you don't make the payments, so the risks are minimal.
More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party's control over both houses of Congress, Iran's announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama's feckless incompetence.
Moreover, Olmert has done nothing to stem the Bush administration's abandonment of Israel as a strategic ally and has been so feckless in his handling of Iran's nuclear weapons program that Israel finds itself completely alone to face Iran as the mullahs surge toward nuclear capabilities.
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The Greeks, Spanish and to a degree the Irish, are portrayed as feckless outsiders incapable of adopting Germanic values.
Feckless southern states are not going to be bailed by a hard working northern country that has diligently built its fortune.
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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With disarming frankness, she takes on her family one by one: her father (a moderniser only by his tribe's strict standards), her jealous, superstitious mother, her sisters, who suffer a range of tragic fates, her sad feckless brother, who fails in almost all his traditional duties, except that of beating his sisters.
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.
But as Beijing reckons much of Europe to be feckless and feather-bedded with welfare and pensions, it may attach a few strings.
His stubborn insistence on advancing his feckless foreign policy in the face of its already apparent colossal failure is of a piece with his unswerving commitment to his domestic agenda in spite of its apparent colossal failure.
That the rate mechanism is charitably feckless in an unstable world speaks to the importance of the Treasury and Fed adopting a price rule.
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