There is a slightly plaintive quality in his voice when he adds, "Nobody cared."

Yet the comment had a plaintive quality, coming as it did from a man with considerable experience in Washington.

A. Armenian church music is very distinctive; it has kind of a plaintive, mournful quality.

There was a plaintive quality in her voice that touched him, even as he thought, "Clever girl."

But except for the plaintive quality of his sound, his singing can be expressively flat, and that was often the problem here.

Mia Farrow's voice brings an almost moving plaintive quality to the character.

Chapter 3 contains some of its most centered lines, but the surrounding chapters suggest an underlying plaintive quality.

They had a soulful, almost plaintive quality to them.

And they had a plaintive quality which could have been termed elfin.

The weird sound began again with a plaintive quality that was almost human.