Anne Tutnauer, walking behind them, heard a plaintive plea: "Susie, will you please walk in my direction?"

Ms. Mayer pegged them as tourists until they passed her and she heard the girl's plaintive plea: "Dad, would you please stop pretending we're French?"

All of it was transpiring in eerie silence broken only by her plaintive pleas for help.

Rather it is a collection of plaintive pleas, gathered from listening.

Despite the plaintive pleas, the industry has rolled out the red carpet for new talent in recent years with cash prizes and editorial coverage in magazines.

Her Facebook page is full of plaintive pleas for guidance on where to purchase yard signs and bumper stickers.

Her book, in fact, might better have been built around its incisive critique of black suburbia than its plaintive plea for idealized diversity.

So far, no one had answered Emil's door except for the big Antarean, who listened to many plaintive pleas but steadfastly turned everyone away.

He still remembered the lady's plaintive plea.

And this is a play with a lot of secrets (none of which I'll reveal here) and plaintive, heartfelt pleas for emotional restitution.