Plaintive

Demetrios’ plaintive amulet is an important piece of evidence showing that it even reached the shores of Britain.

The plaintive ballad finds the newly-divorced singer reflecting on the quality of her past marriage and the facade they put up.

The plaintive melody stands in contrast with Serena's cunning agenda as she manages to host the wake and funeral for her late husband as extravagant public affairs.

It was altogether fitting that the decisive play, the key play, the game-sealing play was also a play that caused angst and worry and triggered the head coach to come up with a rebuke both playful and almost plaintive at the same time.

I'm not sure what mile we had reached when my plaintive cry went out to the other two cars: "Hey, guys?

It’s a play on previous, plaintive memes complaining that 20 percent of Azerbaijan was occupied by Armenia.

Reflective and plaintive, the tune mulls over a relationship that didn't work out, but in the end, is grateful for the time spent together.

The plaintive lament of Garth Clarke of North Sydney about the absence of his morning (C8) struck a chord with pretty much everyone who read it.

And though he barely mentioned his dire political situation, save one quip about Brexit, at one point he presented an almost plaintive outcry that handed his viewers a prism into the way he sees the world.

It is a riot of white wings and plaintive calls.

Echos of Neil Young’s plaintive voice, Charlie Patton’s gravel road vocal and the hypnotic musings of Eno make their way into this strange, beautiful and highly intoxicating music.

Equipped with an arrestingly plaintive alto singing voice, Ashford is a Roosevelt High School grad and a folkie singer-songwriter.

First there’s just a chiming guitar, picking out plaintive, atmospheric chords.

Pope Francis said “the temptation to silence young people has always existed”, and cited the many ways to keep them quiet, “to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive”.

The piano score tinkles, prim and plaintive.

Both the male and female sing during the winter, when they hold separate territories, the song then sounding more plaintive than the summer version.

Semi-acoustics are noted for being able to provide a sweet, plaintive, or funky tone.