| The cathedral is crowned by a large golden statue of Mary looking up, with her arms plaintively moving out from her body. |
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| Osmosis Part 1 is a wheeling, plaintively calling piece with restrained, squeezed-chord electronics from Frisell. |
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| Antimony cast a scornful eye over the wrecked interior, the ripped curtains blowing plaintively with a weak breeze. |
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| They head out in the boat and Sancho starts crying after he hears his donkey braying plaintively. |
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| This evening, when I got in from work, sitting on the back step and mewling plaintively was a small cat with a black splodge on his chin, and all his fur intact. |
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| Culturally we have feasted on the bounty of our neighbours, and then we ask plaintively what is wrong with our progress in the arts. |
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| With modest adjustments, this cri de coeur could be plaintively submitted by any corporate drone who's ever dreamed outside his or her little gray box. |
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| His faster songs were rapidly percussive, his slower songs were plaintively rendered in his odd quavering-soprano voice, and they all had that trademark energy. |
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| The leaders of the POUM plaintively try to persuade the government to take the road of socialist revolution. |
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| Their connections are imaginative and tricky and revealed in a timely fashion, and they each get a chance to soliloquize plaintively. |
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| The miscreant's neighbours plaintively tell Ferris they can no longer continue to live in the atmosphere of menace that the young man seems to generate. |
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| Presenting a feisty girl on the cusp of her teenage years, Bentall conveys her character astonishingly well, at times plaintively and almost inaudibly high-voiced, at others a tomboy in her spontaneous reactions. |
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| Why should Turkey implement difficult reforms to meet European standards, some ask plaintively, if EU membership will not be forthcoming in return? |
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| He chronicles a dying man's struggle to deal passionately, mischievously and plaintively with deadly illness that has invaded his body and community. |
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| Eso howled plaintively and leapt at the young woman, hands outstretched. |
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| The poor mother stays next to the body for months and cries plaintively. |
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| In lanes between white fields, where young beasts lowed plaintively, lacking sense to clear the covering and reach the grass, my cycle tyres crunched through the sugary compound on the unswept surface. |
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| An ambulance noses its way, whipping, whooping and plaintively wailing like Madonna with a lungful of helium. |
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