Примеры plaintive

• The lyrics are mildly plaintive love poems and the music does not so much excite passion as entertain soothingly.

• It weaves a delicate melodic tracery with whole-tone scales over a sustained backdrop, with hints of shepherd pipes, plaintive cantillation phrases and fragmentary dance rhythms.

• One dog that died had been: uttering his plaintive howls on the march, a thing one never hears a dog do while working.

• Combining with this virtual sound-world, the trio's main contribution, apart from plaintive folk-like music at the opening and in a few other key passages, was ostinato-based obbligato work.

• As has been stated, we have heard many times the rather plaintive cries about the benefits to be won by competition.

• He has made plaintive excuses for the economic necessity of their actions.

• Perhaps, we shall come to some plaintive little tune on the flutes as a finale, and then perhaps hear no more of it.

• I call it a plaintive bleat because in some degree it is hypocritical.