Voorbeelden van plaintiveness

• The writing is sometimes exquisite in its plaintiveness.

• The song deepens from plaintiveness to irrevocable sorrow.

• Her performance is wonderfully sympathetic, without any recourse to plaintiveness or souped-up emotion.

• The merit of this bird's strain is in its freedom from all plaintiveness.

• Indeed, his song is very strong for so small a bird, and unites in a remarkable degree brilliancy and plaintiveness.

• And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.

• Indeed, his song is very strong for so small a bird and unites in a remarkable degree brilliancy and plaintiveness.

• Her voice had a strange piercing plaintiveness and wildness.