Lang watched a while and seemed moved by the children and their plaintive song.
Emmanuel, the African, pens plaintive letters full of unintentional doubles entendres to his lost sister.
The ex-communist countries of Europe realise that it hurts their cause to sound plaintive, needy or nostalgic.
Accompanying herself on the piano, Ellison sings the tunes simply, with an emphasis on her sweet, plaintive melodies.
William Strong and his wife, Virginia, were buried here amid rifle volleys and a plaintive playing of taps.
Sautet builds up a needling tension, aided by fine renditions of Ravel at his most difficult and plaintive.
The second movement starts ambiguously bright like a restless red sunrise but soon settles into a more muted, plaintive register.
It would hourglass for a while before eventually coming to the rather plaintive conclusion that there weren't "enough resources".
Amid the din of recrimination, some MPs' plaintive wails deserve to be heard.
Her voice, by turns plaintive and coaxing, is distorted to resemble a man's.
An introduction, complete with finger cymbals and (almost) a cappella vocals, slides seamlessly into a gently driving, plaintive folk melody.
Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the humanity!"
Maki possesses a conversational singing style much like that of Kathleen Edwards or Lucinda Williams that feels plaintive, welcome, and warm.
The high, plaintive wail of the pedal steel guitar and the warmly rough voice that follows close behind it define Robert Randolph's sound.
His voice is breathy, wistful and piping, yet plaintive and emotive.
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Muhly handles this lurid story with thoughtfulness and compassion: plaintive chorales and brooding ostinatos suggest the sadness and the loneliness lurking within the electronic global village.
It may well be that Ms Olds's is the sound of a particular voice in contemporary America, one that is at once plaintive, self-righteous and high-toned.
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Much as I commiserate with the poor kids who got the tar whaled out of them, their plaintive screams were a lot less annoying than leaf blowers.
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The lovely melody of "You Can't Hurt Me Now, " with its plaintive vocal, keening pedal-steel guitar and loping tempo, is typical of the songcraft offered on Beware.
But the analyst this morning issued a plaintive, angst-ridden plea, practically begging the company to expand its roster of iPhones to deal with the expanding threat from Samsung.
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One aging Rockette wrote a plaintive letter to Jimmy, who raced into Manhattan, met with the union on his own, and agreed to let the senior dancers stay on.
Mr. Sheik's music softens and sentimentalizes the script, and he has trouble with the vigorous rhythms of Auden's verse, but at their best his plaintive songs are dramatically effective.
Romney's campaign even piled one whine upon another by running a commercial showing a plaintive Hillary Clinton saying "Shame on you, Barack Obama" during the savage 2002 Democratic primaries.
In the Palestinian jihad that followed Arafat's rejection of Barak and Clinton's plaintive offers, more than 1, 000 Israelis were murdered - more than 70 percent of whom were civilians.
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At the opening Requiem aeternam, plaintive strings play in short, breathless statements that grow in length and fervor before the chorus joins in, along with an array of chiming bells.
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The plaintive, almost straining bassoon solo in the opening still sounds like some new breed of snake charmer to me, oozing with clarinets while cajoling various creatures from their hiding places.
The fragile voice of performer-composer Paul Williams, who had many hits in the 1970s, is an ideal choice for "Touch": Opening as a plaintive ballad, it builds until it bursts with joy.
As we turn up the road through the village that clings to the hem of Tikse's sprawling skirt, we hear the-plaintive, summoning blasts on the traditional (yes, in the Himalayas) conch-shell horn.
Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz ("Spellbound") isn't going to win any prizes for originality, even if it's true that this plaintive comedy about a stammerer recruited onto the debate team is based on personal experience.
When it comes to consumer-level IoT, the classic example is Botanicalls, a dinky little product which sends plaintive tweets when the soil it is planted in becomes dry, to ensure plants stay watered.
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