plaintiveness

The film presents this with a plaintiveness that really is funny.

"But from those on the other side I hear plaintiveness and anguish.

There was a trace of plaintiveness in the voice.

He looked up with a kind of stunned plaintiveness.

Then a bit of plaintiveness crept into her voice.

Maybe we're all together, Ori thought with a plaintiveness that troubled him.

That the play's authors didn't really share this belief only enhances the moment's plaintiveness.

The lamps along the platform burn with a nearly palpable plaintiveness.

There was quiet dignity and plaintiveness in Bird Dog's voice.

"Wait," said the bek of Khazaria, with a plaintiveness that surprised him.

He understood the plaintiveness of its cry.

Yet, the plaintiveness in his lyrical phrases gives this pathetic character an affecting depth.

At a lunch following the desert shoot, he let a certain plaintiveness seep into his standard rap about gun owners' rights.

"You should have letme talk to Manuar," she said with mingled plaintiveness and frustration.

There was a child's plaintiveness here.

"Chia, it hurts," he said, with a childlike plaintiveness that she found oddly touching.

The song deepens from plaintiveness to irrevocable sorrow.

But it has a plaintiveness that could have been lifted from a 1930's Warner Brothers muckraking melodrama.

Within is the sound of mere martyr invincibility; tempered with the due tone of plaintiveness.

The woman sang the old refrain with an unexpected plaintiveness marred by a giggle at the end as the man whispered something in her ear.

It is all high anxiety, filled with Jewish plaintiveness, teetering neurotically between popular frankness and sophisticated isolation.

Judy Garland's original interpretations of those three songs infused them with a bittersweet, waiflike plaintiveness.

The phrase "should be" lending an air of plaintiveness to what should have been a stem-winder of an introduction.

"Hill said with mock plaintiveness.

Noble plaintiveness informs the clarinet.