Parts of his speech were of a very pleasant, rather plaintive kind of candour.
So why is it that we hear the plaintive cries of chambers of commerce and employers' organisations throughout the land that the employee is over-protected?
I would not term the representations as plaintive.
He was almost plaintive in the apology he made for his present policy.
Therefore, we can dismiss the rather plaintive argument that the common agricultural policy is somehow a good thing.
One is doing good by spending has been the plaintive cry of the bankrupt down the ages.
It is plaintive because it cannot get on the network as frequently as it would wish.
I call it a plaintive bleat because in some degree it is hypocritical.
