Then we entered the car, he looked at me plaintively, without lowering his eyes...
Then she plaintively asks if she can open the package.
The kazoo (very unusual in rock music) that plaintively sings throughout the song even has a scat quality.
In the second part, the fellow wants to sleep, and in his dreamy state can not find his tune: finally, he plaintively turns back.
I am bound plaintively to ask why.
Why have we always to be in this position of plaintively appealing to the governing classes of this country for higher standards of life for the people?
Here we are back again in the midst of preparations for another conflict and statesmen are plaintively telling us that only in a multitude of armaments shall we find peace.
They did so largely because they wished to introduce commercial radio, which they now plaintively ask us not merely to keep and sustain but to expand.
