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.
