Plaintive
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Clearly, all the bows and
plaintive
“mea culpas” made by the Pope over the past year to mark the 2000th anniversary of the Birth of Christ, have not satisfied the Patriarch.
More example sentences with word plaintive
But then I would get these
plaintive
emails from him when he was at work.
An excellent character study and a find production with little to fault, "OTT" offers three fine performances by a trio of top actors and some
plaintive
reflections on life and death.
Factor in good and evil in the forms of his his love interest (Watson) and former "mentor" (Wilson) respectively and you have a
plaintive
drama laced with poignant and delicately humorous moments mingled with the rich scenic beauty of Italy's Lake Como and the intensity of high chess play.
"The Fly," like "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," shows us a monster who is reduced to a grotesque (and in the case of Brundle, inhuman) appearance, while still endowed with the bare instincts of love, morality, and fear; under increasingly heavy makeup, Goldblum retains his trademark sardonic wit, but it connects with a
plaintive
sorrow that is truly affecting.
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