It is probably a stretch to call this tune plaintive, because this is still a real-time comment section full of NFL fans and as such plaintive is definitively not on the menu.
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Plaintive phone call from Chris: he's also banned from WhatsApp.
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His story, less visibly traumatic than Jason's, is more plaintive.
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It inspired an almost plaintive concurring opinion from Justice Kennedy.
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This ode to the Coliseum ends in a plaintive fashion.
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Also funny: The sensates are slightly annoyed by their plaintive buddy.
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It's a modern melody, and Lear its first plaintive piper. ♦
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This lends a plaintive edge to his nostalgia, and to Scorsese's.
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He sounded almost plaintive when he said it a third time.
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The soprano sings in plaintive phrases of disarming poignancy in parts.
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The nostalgia is almost plaintive — like for a Camelot with dorms.
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In The Game, he comes off as plaintive, vainglorious, abusive, and immature.
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"He sounded almost plaintive," Stewart said in his column in The Times.
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And then it is just that huge, beautiful, plaintive trumpet, without words.
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But Schultz's complaint isn't one man-of-means's plaintive cry for understanding.
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Ms. Grigorian sang Salome with a plaintive radiance that few sopranos summon.
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That self-satisfied, nasal and plaintive presidential voice has become a norm.
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There is that part of her that's very plaintive, like any addict.
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"How much do you have to give?" he asked, sounding almost plaintive.
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"We've got a big chance coming," Mr. Sheff sings in a plaintive deadpan.
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Her seven-month-old baby, Hector, has a flattened forehead and plaintive cry.
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Each letter is distinctive, but all are plaintive, anguished, deeply engaged and urgent.
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Ms. van den Heever's melting, plaintive singing conveyed the character's fragile emotions beautifully.
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This plaintive battle cry is ubiquitous in Venezuela: on billboards, placards, T-shirts.
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In retrospect, the ardent patriotism of European Jews had a pathetic, plaintive quality.
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Still, for all their naturalism, the vocal lines also achieve agitated, plaintive lyricism.
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Ms. Boeck sings with a plaintive passion that dovetails perfectly with Ms. Frank's performance.
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Somehow, they bend these nonsensical syllables into an exchange that sounds plaintive, even romantic.
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A melancholy kind of pop (check those plaintive piano chords) it's still uplifting, somehow.
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Binoche is the least plaintive of performers, and it's galling to see her beg.
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Gundogan fell to the ground, and raised a plaintive arm to summon medical attention.
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Yet she often writes these plaintive entries from her beach house in the Hamptons.
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They are pressing against the glass, and there is something plaintive in their gesture.
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Some, like the title track of "Sprained Ankle," pass in a uniformly plaintive key.
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This mix of wild energy and plaintive emotion governed Michel's extravagantly well-lived life.
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It's a startling, almost comical image, until the film makes it disturbing, sad, and plaintive.
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But there were also several plaintive, introspective weatherkin blogs written in a seemingly sincere tone.
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That plaintive refrain, echoing over the hills and plains of movie blogland. Worst. Summer. Ever.
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The bassoon and oboe played soft wailing tones, then segued into plaintive, twisting melodic lines.
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The losing player's grunts are often plaintive and pleading, like the fearful whine of prey.
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It's a plaintive American narrative that here becomes an expressionistic odyssey, both rapturous and melancholic.
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The French artist JR pasted that plaintive image on Wednesday, his first installation in Mexico.
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The names of the dead were read to the plaintive accompaniment of a single cello.
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And so, in the meantime, Steyer has joined them in the plaintive race for donors.
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Potty Mouth has been dishing achey, plaintive pop-punk for the better half of a decade.
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Peeking from behind a thick row of fringe, Weissman's Violet is equal parts determined and plaintive.
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Already it is beautiful, though: vigorous, funny and plaintive, an act of both perseverance and remembrance.
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This is a plaintive group date, because Jason, Wills, and Leo are clearly such good friends.
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Such contrasts arise throughout: archaic choral polyphony and modernist whisperings, keening string clusters and plaintive drones.
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I thought it was so wistful and so plaintive and no one else sounded like that.
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I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!
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His plaintive lines float atop undulant orchestral ripples and bucolic woodwind harmonies tweaked with clashing intervals.
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This is one of her more conventional songs, a tortured ballad that showcases her plaintive voice.
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The only words come from a plaintive song by the indie group the Sons of Bill.
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His Third Symphony represented a stylistic breakthrough: austerely plaintive, emotionally direct and steeped in medieval modes.
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I find retailing alternately anxiety-inducing and soothing, a plaintive plea followed by a sturdy hug.
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Rock music gives way to the plaintive Bee Gees ballad "Holiday" and the pace slows accordingly.
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Only now it feels like a plaintive holdover from a distant, more innocent time — like 2015.
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What I thought was most interesting from Taylor's testimony was a bit of a plaintive note.
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Whitman then begins the prologue, singing in phrases that shift between stentorian declamations and plaintive passages.
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With just the piano and Prince's plaintive vocals, the song, which is about loneliness, is crushing.
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By temperament, he's an outlier—a loner, who for long stretches lived in plaintive upstate nowhere.
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The contrast between plaintive croons and warped electronics will leave you queasy, in the very best way.
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Bonaventure, today shared a plaintive new track off her forthcoming FREE LUTANGU EP for NYC imprint PTP.
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It begins as a plaintive, piano-accompanied pop song with S-AB's slender falsetto taking center-stage.
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Ms. Wallich, who also performs in the work, did the choreography; Mr. Hadreas composed the plaintive music.
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Hoche emitted a curious growl, then a gigantic " Rooooar ," and, finally, a plaintive howl at the moon.
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"It seems like the plaintive sounds and themes of loss resonate across cultures and experiences," he said.
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The letter is moving for how plaintive it is, but also for its sense of personal betrayal.
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Instead, the footage, set to a plaintive piano rendition of "America the Beautiful," emphasizes patriotism and community.
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The intricate, industrious patterns — involving plaintive lines, obsessive ostinatos, string scratchings and more — exuded adventure and intensity.
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Today, he is dressed in a Spider Man outfit, a plaintive pout turning down his plump lips.
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The performance conveyed the plaintive brooding of the first movement and the driving intensity of the second.
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Loesser's path to success personified the script for a Hollywood musical, following a plaintive if brief overture.
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The music suggests a wistful folk song, cushioned by plaintive harmonies and restless lines in the instruments.
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It's the plaintive cry of a bovine mother, MOOing about how her children don't listen to her.
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"I made a mistake," he says in a plaintive voice that has launched countless big-screen gags.
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I was especially affected, though, by an extended, slower, quizzical episode with pensive strings and plaintive chords.
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So Ms. Wolfe inventively juxtaposes a plaintive Yiddish folk song with a lively Italian tarantella-like piece.
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"Electrical" is a plaintive new wave ballad, the record's centerpiece, a vented confession of love and confusion.
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I haven't been able to get Giovanni Ribisi's plaintive wailing out of my head for nearly 20 years.
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Sanders sounded a plaintive note when discussing why the Clinton administration supported measures that many progressives consider abhorrent.
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His plaintive, lilting delivery makes every line funny – and they're funny lines to begin with ("a freaky circle").
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CHRCH kicks off the collab with "Temples," which begins with a plaintive, understated intro before roaring into life.
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But Mr. Pollini sensitively drew out the plaintive melodic lines that penetrate the tangles of passagework and counterpoint.
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Ramin Djawadi's score (the show's M.V.P., crystalline even in the muddiest of moments) shifts from martial to plaintive.
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So the FDA is making plaintive appeals on Twitter, in addition to negotiating with companies behind the scenes.
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There are hints of Donizetti and Verdi in Erkel's score, passages of plaintive harmonic writing, and hymnlike choruses.
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The voice emerges from the depths, moans its plaintive song, and in under two minutes, forlornly recedes again.
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J.P. Plaintive and propulsive combine in "Particle," a new song from the increasingly electronic Florida band Hundred Waters.
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With that in mind, you could read "Only connect" as the writer's plaintive command to himself, tragically unfulfilled.
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Repeatedly, at her moment of greatest anguish, she rises onto point as she turns through huge, plaintive arabesques.
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Yet as time goes by, such European messages have become ever more plaintive and homegrown issues demand attention.
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On this cassette release, noisy, metallic sounds threaten to overwhelm the plaintive song to which they are obliquely related.
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The plaintive Facebook ads he ran this week urged Democrats to help him secure a spot at the debates.
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Tetris Effect is still Tetris filtered through a heady, sincere blend of hyper-chromatic visuals and plaintive electronic music.
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As a singer, her sharp, enunciated, elongated syllables add a plaintive sweetness that matches the bleakness of the music.
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Mr. Blanchard, in his trumpet solo over the plaintive theme, struck a careful tonal balance, sounding haunted but unflinching.
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He sometimes plays the lively yet plaintive llanero music for guests, on the harp, or the four-stringed cuatro.
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No one wants their plaintive wails drowned out by a cacophony of premature, self-congratulatory pats on the back.
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Except for the plaintive engine hum as the plane glides over uninterrupted jungle, a ghostly silence pervades the presentation.
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Its tone — knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity — elevates it to its own kind of specialness.
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He is trying to show that elections can be won through the persuasive power of a plaintive handwritten postcard.
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He has the plaintive look of a man who has spent years appeasing heavily armed men at border checkpoints.
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A Depression-era drama with occasional harmonica, Conor McPherson's play, studded with Bob Dylan's plaintive songs, arrives from London.
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And it certainly doesn't hurt that the songs run the gamut from hell-raising rave-ups to plaintive ballads.
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Even in her Peter Pan collar and Polly Flinders dress, Wanda wears a wizened, plaintive look at the end.
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Fatima's video and plaintive cry offer one of the first up-close looks at the human toll of those policies.
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And when he does, what begins as a child's plaintive longing becomes a double haunting, with resentments on both sides.
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Directed by Riley Blakeway and shot in Australia in early 2019, the plaintive visual fits the equally wistful track nicely.
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He would spend his days wading through the flooded fields, making plaintive honks as he searched for snails and fish.
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The voice needed raising half an octave, to the plaintive McEnrovian pitch, and LaBeouf forgot to screw up his face.
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While the original is pretty spare, stripping everything away but the acoustic guitar makes it even more plaintive and calm.
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In "Des Fischers Liebesglück," in a 2015 arrangement by Alexander Schmalcz, a plaintive theme is picked up by different instruments.
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Sometimes it's almost a sort of plaintive question: Are we a real country if we don't really have a cuisine?
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That was clear in Boone's plaintive voice on Wednesday before he sent Severino to the mound against the Minnesota Twins.
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A curious passer-by might notice plaintive children in styling chairs, sucking on lollipops, while young women comb their hair.
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Even the title of his guide to creative protest and freeloading, " Steal This Book " (20163), seemed more plaintive than audacious.
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Pinegrove's breakthrough album, "Cardinal," released in 2016, contained "Visiting" and seven more songs that were similarly plaintive, and similarly addictive.
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Offill deploys a lot of sometimes ironic, sometimes plaintive factoids about subjects like the animal world, prepping and Eastern religion.
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Bad Friend Bad Friend: Your plaintive question is yet another example of how the impact of sexual assault ripples outward.
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In earnest, almost plaintive email missives to supporters, he ticked off the miles, described the scenery and asked for donations.
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In Iliniwek (Illinois, played from Southampton, UK), Control roleplays plaintive phone calls from players' families as their neighborhoods are overrun.
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In examining that moment — with her mouth half-open in protest — she memorializes something common to us all, our plaintive cry.
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But the Stark connection is clearest, as Peter spends the film trying, with increasingly plaintive frustration, to get Tony Stark's attention.
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Over a plaintive organ in "June", Mr Talbot grieves for his stillborn daughter and the "baby shoes for sale: never worn".
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Sometimes the plaintive string slices through scenes to punctuate banal terrors, springing from the insecurity and paranoia engulfing its central characters.
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And Loreen, who enjoyed the show's most plaintive narrative, tries to parent her explosive daughter — as she's done throughout the series.
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Throughout, Batmanglij plays a twelve-string guitar tuned like an Iranian instrument called a tar , which produces a plaintive, trancelike effect.
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A plaintive is increasingly heard in writers like New York Times columnist David Brooks and New York magazine essayist Andrew Sullivan.
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"Dark Necessities" has all the trademarks: thumb-popping bass, chiming guitar, vocals that oscillate between rhythmic patter and a plaintive chorus.
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Esther's voice was thin and plaintive, and though it was a begging sort of voice, it was a voice without hope.
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What in the World It sounds at first like a cry for help, the plaintive voice of a woman in distress.
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Her unmistakable Irish accent and the Celtic inflections of her melodies gave her singing a plaintive individuality and a flinty core.
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It is not a dirge or a Bukowski-like scratching of the groin but an offbeat and plaintive hymn to life.
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On July 29, 1975, his 40th birthday, he invited her to a recording session for "Oh, Sister," Desire's haunting, plaintive ballad.
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Mr. Eckert's Harold has stretches of plaintive singing, but delivers most of his part in long monologues filled with poetic flights.
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" Acts of Infidelity " (Other Press), the new novel by the Swedish writer Lena Andersson, begins with a plaintive act of devotion.
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The song starts off like a downtrodden ballad, with vocalist Steve Ciolek backed solely by an acoustic guitar and warmblingly plaintive.
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"I worry about rain and I worry about lightning," Vernon sang on"00000 Million" the album's plaintive, soul searching closing track.
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These were the plaintive cries of a generation of children, and explain why we're all such bitter and twisted adults today.
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Then there's perhaps his biggest track, "One More Time," which has prompted innumerable plaintive, rum-fueled singalongs since its release in 2007.
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Standing in contrast to the shell paintings is the second section of works, a series of plaintive pieces of plywood, all untitled.
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Bina's tragic outfit choice, which makes her look like a cater waiter, is a plaintive metaphor for how her husband sees her.
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The song's first half has a hazy, new age tone, built around a plaintive smooth jazz sample and a serene vocal snippet.
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The first single, "Ophelia," echoes "Ho Hey," down to its tambourine and part of its chorus melody, but it's more openly plaintive.
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Mr. Odom is far more reliant on his upper register here than in "Hamilton," and far more reliant on his plaintive side.
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The words are uttered without apology in the plaintive tone of a stubborn little boy who insists on having everything his way.
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Climbing the hill, gun drawn, the high-pitched squealing of Yolandi Visser rose louder and louder and so did the plaintive barking.
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Yet in plaintive passages, the melting warmth of her tone and the supple way she shaped long lines held you in thrall.
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But to his family, he is a hideous monster, his plaintive attempts to communicate causing them to shield their ears in pain.
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The Modzitzer sect, based in Bnei Brak, Israel, is famous in the Jewish world for soulful melodies, sometimes plaintive and sometimes joyous.
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Restless vocal lines shift from plaintive lyrical phrases, to sputtered outbursts, to a style that seems a jazz equivalent of Italianate arioso.
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Thinking back over the confirmation battle, listening to Ms. Green and Ms. Walls joke and joust, she allowed herself a plaintive question.
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Last week, the Niskanen Center's Jerry Taylor, a prominent NTR, wrote a somewhat plaintive piece drawing these questions together: Whither Never Trump?
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We love the idea of Gaga transitioning through her career and its distinct phases before ending on a plaintive ballad like 'Million Reasons.
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Granted, nobody has seen a pig quite like this before, but something about the rendering -- with those big plaintive eyes -- isn't quite kosher.
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"Gloria" is a tribute to Fargo's Gloria Bugle, and it's one of the most engrossingly plaintive rock songs of this year so far.
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All plaintive love, pleas for more time, and the sad realization that all one's burning desires will end in a heap of ashes.
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The plaintive "Mei Mei," a tribute to his daughter he released in July 2017, now feels like a eulogy for his aberrant adulthood.
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When she started to sing, the number became unlike any version I'd heard before—plaintive, sweet, a folk song about love and desire.
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Pinky Pinky's "Robber" is one heckuva Sour Patch Kid of a garage tune: First it's sweet, all plaintive guitar strums and lovelorn croons.
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His story is in the mode of James Merrill's lovely "A Different Person," a plaintive account of coming of age by going abroad.
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Mr. Pearce sat on a leather bench and began to strum, trying out a few plaintive Jeff Buckley riffs, a Bob Dylan song.
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On Soccer LONDON — As soon as the bugle picked out the first, plaintive note of the Last Post, Wembley Stadium seemed to freeze.
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Rather than plaintive or wistful, The Good Fight is a funny, sometimes viciously self-aware examination of taking ourselves and others to task.
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Hearty yet shadowy, fanfarelike orchestral bursts alternated with his wistful playing of ruminative passages for violin, rich with Slavic fervor and plaintive lyricism.
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One man plucked a plaintive tune on a guitar as Mr. Cahn wound up the service, inviting the crowd to bow their heads.
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A young Serbian journalist applied, and while her experience fell a bit short, she was plaintive and moving in describing her hopes and dreams.
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Yet, when I stepped into the darkened gallery the second time, I did honestly expect to hear something plaintive and kind, languorous and poignant.
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On his world tour, the Brooklyn-born singer uses Ms Bush's plaintive ballad as a moment of unity and reflection among otherwise upbeat grooves.
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Dido and Mr Gray have left "Life for Rent" and "White Ladder" long behind them, but plaintive guitar and piano ballads will live on.
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If you like plaintive and plainspoken or have a bit of love for good old-fashioned folk music, this is the jam for you.
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Rickman rarely got to play roles without a hint of menace, or a sense of plaintive exhaustion toeing the line toward possible incandescent rage.
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He engaged in a somewhat plaintive discussion behind me with Monica Alba, a campaign reporter for NBC ("Varun, you have no case," she said).
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He and an attractively no-nonsense colleague, Irena (Agata Kulesza), record villagers whose plaintive, haunting music is a vestige of the rapidly receding past.
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In "The Pisces," her first novel, Broder expands her personal, plaintive mythology of love troubles, sexual siren songs and the inevitable march toward oblivion.
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Not all current commencement books, it should be noted, use their skepticism or plaintive bagpiping as a dodge or a rationale for self-inventorying.
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Once it was clear that the Iceland team was done for, Mr. von Bothmer took out a harmonica to play a plaintive blues melody.
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But this moral rage is separate and apart from emotional distress, the former being active and energetic while the latter is passive and plaintive.
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"It's a plaintive American narrative that here becomes an expressionistic odyssey, both rapturous and melancholic," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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Which may explain why Mr. Fillon, 62 and also a former prime minister, sounded plaintive this week, defending himself at a Paris trade show.
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The desire to seem shocking — as opposed to a curiosity about thresholds physical and ethical — tends to produce provocation of a very plaintive sort.
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Imagine one of those plaintive and/or smug Odyssey listicles explaining Twelve Reasons Why Millennials are Failing at Love, translated into its album equivalent.
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Yet where Grosz tends to cut the tension of an unbearable situation with humor, Douglas's animals are expressly didactic and Capistrán's pigs are plaintive.
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While Mike is waxing plaintive in his basement, Eleven is using her television to reach him, the same way she reached Will in season one.
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Without improved audio, his plaintive "The Evil Devil Blues," about a love triangle rather than a meeting at the crossroads, might have captivated me anyway.
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In case you hadn't heard, Aziz Ansari's plaintive exploration on modern love and identity called Master of None is returning to Netflix on May 12.
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In what might be Rihanna's finest vocal performance to date, she stretches on "Higher" to find the plaintive voice cracks that are Ms. Bourelly's specialty.
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It starts with the plaintive notes of an organ playing the baroque Adagio in G Minor coupled with a spectacular aerial shot of Lower Manhattan.
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"Free Around You" is a perfect distillation why they work so well together—their twinkling guitars and amiable voices interlock in this wonderfully plaintive way.
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Most critics acknowledged the score's beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra's death scene, in which the character's plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.
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In their interview, Mr. Petrov and Mr. Boshirov adopted the same plaintive tone used by Mr. Putin and his officials in response to past accusations.
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Sometimes, though, those silences are filled with the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs and performed with increasing assurance as the show proceeds.
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Upon proceeding to a room designated "Active Sculpture," the chatter of journalists gave way to silence and then a plaintive sonic arrangement by Tarek Atoui.
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IZMIR, Turkey — City workers shoveled dirt over the two coffins, one at a time, as an imam, in plaintive and meditative tones, sang prayers in Arabic.
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If this music soared as automatically as the arena-rock it's modeled on, the sentiments would rankle; instead there's a plaintive, clumsy pathos to the lurch.
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That dollar divide — often it's $51 ad dollars that goes to TV for every $49 spent online — has elicited plaintive pronouncements from mighty tech's executive ranks.
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The original version from the 1991 film, performed by Angela Lansbury, is lilting, sweet, and a little plaintive — all excellent qualities for a fairy-tale anthem.
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Listen to "Be Home Soon" up above alongside a wonderful stop-motion paper-cutout video by Rivkah Gevinson that captures the song's plaintive tone, up above.
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The fragility of life is underscored by two slightly plaintive, Cat Power-like songs of the Austrian musician Anja Plaschg, who calls her project Soap&Skin.
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Brooklyn-based artist, Michael Beharie, has shared a glisteningly plaintive new track off his forthcoming debut album Ray Like Morning on New York imprint Astro Nautico.
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I consoled myself with a camel-milk ice cream cone and plaintive window-shopping in the high-end mega-mall at the base of the Burj.
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The beguiling soprano Julia Bullock drew out the wrenching ambiguity of this moment in her plaintive singing, backed by hazy instrumental sonorities that resist harmonic mooring.
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This powerful singing actress adds unusual intensity to her plaintive "Song to the Moon," Rusalka's famed lament, suggesting the character's defiant side more than most sopranos.
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The Other Two is as if "Back Home Ballers" got a plaintive year-long rewrite, or if Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping got an injection of pathos.
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He's somebody ... And the reason he took it so personally, he took my TED talk so personally, is because ... Did you get a plaintive text or something?
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Mr. Fingland's deep breaths and sighs became a backdrop for long, sustained notes, the plaintive clarinet utterances unfolding over what sounded like a chorus of gentle sobs.
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The plaintive tenderness of his high tenor voice and the sweetness of his acoustic guitar were all that mattered to his audience of enraptured Balanda, white folk.
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Perhaps the most resonant moment comes during the quieter side of Lea's music in "yanking the peals off around my neck..," which showcases her plaintive folk side.
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Satoshi Ashikawa opens the collection with the plaintive and gorgeous "Still Space" while pieces like the too-brief "Seiko 3" by composer Yasuaki Shimizu burst with vitality.
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The Violin Concerto (1992) unfolds in an episodic, teeming rush of colors, effects and techniques, with echoes of plaintive Transylvanian folk song and bouts of pulsing wildness.
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There are toy-town sequences, in which a puppet-size Lloyd suddenly finds himself, alive and plaintive, amid the model buildings on the set of the show.
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The same thing he's always done — even on his pop-star tribute: plaintive acoustic ballads, '70s arena rock homage, some harmonica and a dash of alt-country.
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The word "empty" is unexpectedly joined to a low F-major triad, and a solo double bass traces out a plaintive micro-melody in that key area.
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I really like "Die Like a Rich Boy," which is like a plaintive song at the end, which really hasn't got a lot of instrumentation on it.
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It's the upward arc of its music, which finds a plaintive hunger to loom large, if only for a moment, that gives lost souls something like nobility.
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"This Close" is quiet, but not to an extreme — there's a lot of plaintive pop music on the soundtrack, and Ms. Stern voices much of her dialogue.
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In conversation, Parker's voice is a calm baritone; in his songs, it's a plaintive, sustained tenor and falsetto, higher and more fragile, a tone of exposed emotions.
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"I loved being in the middle of something big, and the biggest thing in my life was Ralph," she wrote in one of her more plaintive passages.
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There were plaintive ballads sung in the traditional sean-nós style; there were flutes and fiddles; and, naturally, there was plenty of percussive stomping and intricate footwork.
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The main problem was that Sergey's voice, which completely drowned out Cohen's baritone, was plaintive and childlike: Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day.
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With entries like DUMB DOWN, ENERVATE, SLOTHFUL and NOTHING, the message in Mr. Saunders's quote and Cox and Rathvon's puzzle is turned up to a plaintive keening.
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He raised a plaintive hand to his teammates and to Anfield, packed to the rafters, in apology; he shook his head, as if to clear the cobwebs.
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As I walked through the exhibition, I became aware of a plaintive voice emanating from one of the rooms at the far end of the exhibition space.
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Ben Brantley praised this "quietly perceptive portrait" of twin girls returning home and noted "the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs" written by the Bengsons.
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The other dramatic competition high point was the plaintive, gorgeous and finally exultant "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," the first feature directed by Joe Talbot.
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The soprano Anita Hartig sang beautifully as the self-sacrificing Liu, her alluring voice plaintive and expressive; the rich-voiced bass-baritone Alexander Tsymbalyuk rendered Timur with dignity.
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In its blog post announcing the GPP cessation, Nvidia sounds a plaintive note about "rumors, conjecture, and mistruths," though it never goes on to elaborate or provide specifics.
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The one difference is melodic, as the chords have shifted from ecstatic major-key sunshine to plaintive major-key nostalgia, hinting ever so slightly at an underlying melancholy.
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First is "For David Robert Jones," a plaintive eulogy for the late David Bowie; the second, "A Shadow in Time," is a droning, cosmic piece of orchestral minimalism.
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Made up of nine simple, heartbroken, and heartbreaking songs accompanied by Baker's plaintive electric guitar plucking, that pure, quavering-with-emotion voice belongs to a remarkable new talent.
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It's hard to miss Russell's standout turn on "More Real," a jangly, thrusting four-to-the-floor number underpinned by his characteristically plaintive vocals and and wistful lyricism.
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The record's closing track, the slow-burning and plaintive number "Wide Open", featuring American shapeshifter Beck, has just received video treatment almost half a year after its release.
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Passing its main melody back and forth between plaintive pianos and distorted synths, the track's sense of frustrated mournfulness is further intensified by a pitched-down vocal sample.
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It was a small, plaintive, lonely sound, not spoken or sung but still audible, thanks to the force of O'Hara's rendering—the smallness was that of Cathy's life.
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The styles of the songs on the new mini-mix range are remarkably diverse, ranging from plaintive piano solos to high-energy techno and carnivalesque hip-hop instrumentals.
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The Eagles are one of Bernstein's favorite groups and he delivers it with a combination of its original plaintive dustiness and his own Great Las Vegas Room Mojo.
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Optima, a division of Sentara Healthcare, invited customers to share their personal stories on its Facebook page, and they obliged, with a fusillade of plaintive and sardonic comments.
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In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings: Fame is a tall, tall tower A building left in the night Jesse, are you listening?
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To my eye, this "Black Book" and the informal but intimate black dump of coal have the tectonic rumblings of a Tibetan chant, at once plaintive and pitiable.
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PARIS — When a fledgling alternative press published Gabrielle Deydier's plaintive memoir of growing up fat in France, there was little expectation that the book would attract much notice.
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The prospect of an invigorated right-wing government pushing to annex West Bank land sent shudders through the Israeli peace camp and drew plaintive reactions from the Palestinians.
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Then one day a new message popped up: "hi dad" I stared for a while at Alice's message, so plaintive and weightless, without even the anchor of punctuation.
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There are passages in Rzewski's long piano piece, based on the song, where the plaintive melody is enshrouded in clusters evocative of Ives, or in dreamy jazzy harmonies.
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"This next one is called 'Scattered Words,' " said a young woman with an acoustic guitar, and she broke in to a plaintive tune that reminded me of Vampire Weekend.
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Then, the same synthesizer as before plays a slower and more plaintive melody; derived from disco, its lyrical ache is particularly blatant when juxtaposed against the band's fidgety harshness.
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Dean has drawn comparisons to Woody Allen movies, for obvious reasons: like Allen's classic characters, Dean is neurotic, self-absorbed, witty in a plaintive way, and obsessed with death.
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Sometimes plaintive, she returns with a feeling of curiosity and dread to one of the stages through which she has passed, perhaps before becoming today the evolved white creature.
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We've got C, The Hitter, who looks like he's having a bit of a snack, sitting on the curb, and looking at the plaintive knee-pawing of D, Dog.
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It's his most accessible release yet—with songs as immediate as the plaintive and mournful "Hope" and the disquieting "Crime"—but at other moments, his weirdest and most abrasive.
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Sure, the randomness of the magazine's content and the vague, plaintive earnestness of some lyrics are more unfashionably adolescent — more Tumblr — than you'd want from a 28-year-old.
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When she sang, "It looks like something awful happens / in the kitchens / where women wash their dishes," her plaintive phrasing transformed a description of domestic obligation into genuine tragedy.
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Just before the credits rolled, he sang the letter in a plaintive, minor-key tune, with Ms. Aharish chiming in on the refrain: "masa'a al-kheir," the offending hello.
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Solov is about as media-shy a personality as exists in American life, and despite my most plaintive efforts, he opted not to speak to me for this article.
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" I was reminiscing about all the times I would hear a heart-stopping "Crash!" in my house, only to have it followed by my children's plaintive cry: "I'M OKAY!
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In the summer of 20183, Dershowitz wrote a plaintive op-ed column in The Hill describing the McCarthy-like treatment he had received in Martha's Vineyard for defending Trump.
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The Blackbyrds' plaintive, twinkling lament for a distant lover, with its repetitions of "walking in rhythm/moving in sound," captured the essence of the freedom found at the Loft.
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The male drummers, and the women sitting behind them, sang in Inupiaq style: a first verse, plaintive, then a second, furious and loud, as the men lashed handheld drums.
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Kaschke wrote a plaintive letter about the uncertainty that officials faced with some of the most elderly runners: Was a birth certificate valid if the original no longer existed?
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Blank journals were left under the tree that filled up with messages from visitors — some plaintive ("I am longing for romance"), others inspirational ("Life is incredible, savor every second.").
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Hell, even Full House's theme song was a plaintive paean to a simpler, bygone era that may have only ever existed on Leave It to Beaver: Whatever happened to predictability?
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When debate moderator Chris Wallace pointed out that it was a debate, after all, Cruz engaged in a whiny, plaintive, entirely-too-serious argument with him, before finally hushing up.
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His plaintive moans and sighs on "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" capture the mystery exactly, as do the washes of static that punctuate the song at key moments.
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When you think about it, in terms of propaganda, the plaintive cries of a bawling, penitent UVA student televised internationally is as compelling and newsworthy as test-detonating a nuke.
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" The board knocked Trump for his proposed wall that is "now whittled to steel slats at strategic points, exists in the deal only as a plaintive plea from the president.
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I thought in the most recent record ["Ryan Adams"], he refined that ability — simple, plaintive titles and choruses, just an uncluttered approach to sending that really direct message to people.
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Even though its eight pieces never rely on more than just a few plaintive synthesizer lines, these microcosms convey a stunning clarity and movement, swirling, hissing, and revealing hidden depths.
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At turns woozy, romantic, and plaintive, these breakout singles connect the dots between cutting edge rap's interest in blown-out, ambient production and its fixation on emo and alternative rock.
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"Pacific Daydream" is both exuberant and plaintive; it's full of songs about past joys and present loneliness, recalling friends and lovers who are no longer part of the singer's life.
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Seemingly out of nowhere came a handsome bearded fellow in street clothes, belting out plaintive songs with such fervor and vibrato that I thought for sure he was a professional.
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Sanders, who has gotten more than a million contributions, recently wrote a rather plaintive note to supporters pointing out that most of his new first-time donors were giving $3.
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Much of Shakespeare's spoken language is retained, but Ms. Taub's songs are in different musical vernaculars — R&B ballads, plaintive guitar-based folk numbers and even jaunty music-hall turns.
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A particularly beautiful one passed through the Plaza Cristo de Burgos one night, punctuated by a plaintive, piercing saeta, or unaccompanied song, performed by a singer from a nearby balcony.
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Thus a show that begins on fairly traditional ground, with Mr. Daumier's witty lithographs and Mr. Courbet's plaintive sketch of a cell, swiftly veers into more expansive and unpredictable territory.
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There's a reason that Death Stranding's first in-game song—a plaintive, striving anthem that cues up as you crest a jaw-dropping vista—is called "Don't Be So Serious."
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Talk Talk's biggest hits, among them "It's My Life" and "Such a Shame," were typical of the style: buoyant songs built on catchy, danceable beats and Mr. Hollis's plaintive lyrics.
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When you enter the gallery, wax cylinder recordings of Crow men singing fill the space with low, plaintive sounds, leading you to Red Star's "Let Them Have Their Voice" (2016).
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Florence and the Machine, the English indie band fronted by large-lunged vocalist Florence Welch, have followed up April's stripped-down and plaintive "Sky Full of Song" with another new single.
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Spotlight's score reeks of mystery and justice (in a good way), but the plaintive piano in "The Children" forces us to contemplate the incontrovertible trauma of the victims in this story.
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The documents include brief excerpts from her journal and the plaintive text messages she tried in vain to send to her husband from a place beyond the reach of cell towers.
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It wasn't long after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton killed more than 30 people that a chorus of commentators, reporters, and even the president himself offered a plaintive response.
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The album has the customary Escovedo mixture of romping Stooges guitar and plaintive folk, but also, in places, a cinematic heft that suggests Ennio Morricone—a whiff of the spaghetti Southwestern.
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Semple's heroine free-associates in many directions, and the narrative lingers in a plaintive, emotional story about Eleanor and her sister, Ivy — "The Flood Girls" of the 16-page color insert.
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A plaintive spirit hovers over "A Season in France," the latest feature by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ("A Screaming Man"), about a refugee family from the Central African Republic living in Paris.
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She in turn becomes a strange twin to the murder victim's daughter, Sakie (Suzu Hirose), a lonely adolescent with a pronounced limp and plaintive mien who was curiously close with Misumi.
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"Music of the Ghosts" is an aesthetic gesture akin to the plaintive playing Ratner's protagonist, Suteera, hears in the novel's third movement while walking through a forest near Angkor's ancient temples.
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As Mr. Ouazana sang songs I did not recognize (not even "Dayenu"!) in a true and plaintive voice between the two rooms of the restaurant, food I did not recognize appeared.
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There are hints of the jagged experimentalism of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, coupled with the plaintive melodic purity of radio-friendly singer-songwriters from the nineties, like Jewel and Michelle Branch.
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With winsome songs like "Random Name Generator" and the more plaintive "You Satellite," Star Wars is an album that hits the laid back but grooving sweet spot any Wilco fan can appreciate.
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But Anna's lie, initially a sin of omission, grows deeper, more complicated and more cruel as Jeanne hangs around, waiting for her lover to return and leaving plaintive messages on his cellphone.
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But the plaintive notes of gospel music drifting from speakers and the black bunting draped over a balcony of the building at the center of the activities indicated a more sombre occasion.
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In the soprano-and-alto duet "And He Shall Feed His Flock," Christina Collier, who sings alongside Brian Palmer in Urban Voices, gave a plaintive torch-song quality to the first verse.
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Music, mostly a plaintive piano score played live by Deborah Lennie-Bisson, is overlaid with lyrics from David Bowie's "Heroes" and children's voices: Like the movement onstage, it is gentle and allusive.
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From her opera "Gilgamesh," Ms. Prestini drew "Prelude and Aria," which begins with heaving and ominous intensity and evolves into a plaintive vocal monologue, sung meltingly by the countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski.
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The protesters were mostly ignored by Iraq's political establishment, but Mr. Sadr viewed their demands as an echo of the plaintive calls of his own base for better jobs and government services.
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While others sidle and swerve through the political and religious hoopla of late-17th-century London court life, Anne, with her watering eyes and comfort eating, merely plods, plaintive and often afraid.
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Loose but not noodly, the reverb-heavy songs luxuriate in space yet find a center in Mr. Granduciel's plaintive, placeless drawl and facility with layering rich textures that manage not to clutter.
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In certain beguiling passages, as when wistful clarinet lines hover over wide-spaced plaintive orchestral sonorities in the opening movement, "A Cold Clear Dawn," Mr. Rogerson risks evoking such models too closely.
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With that in mind, I wanted the design to render those feelings of discovery and celebration and to largely avoid the plaintive grayscale imagery that often dominates the visual vocabulary of death.
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A lot of casual users, for example, nowadays treat Twitter as the first port of call for customer support issues, pinging plaintive missives in the direction of big chain stores and service suppliers.
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Glistening synths, sparse drums, and plaintive guitar solos create a lush instrumental landscape as frontman Adam Granduciel tells a tale of lost love set on a South Dakota stretch of the Missouri River.
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Flying a duo of senior software engineers across the United States is a mark of Apple taking these issues with its software — and related plaintive blog posts that happen to go viral — seriously.
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HOURS after issuing its second tie ruling of 2016, a 4-4 decision on March 29th that gives public-sector unions an unexpected break, the Supreme Court issued a plaintive cry for help.
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He was warm and talkative, but every now and then he got a lost, plaintive look in his green eyes; I had the impression of a man who is clinging to a precipice.
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The EP, which follows 2015's standout LP Sightless, Unless, fuses plaintive guitar with frenetic beats, dissonant samples (think Burial, FlyLo, and a touch of Broken Social Scene), and layers of lustrous falsetto.
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She stumbles and she falls, plays at being Lucy and slips back into a radically changed Setsuko in a movie in which the human comedy is by turns tender, plaintive, heartfelt and joyful.
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His earnest, Auto-Tuned singing bears more of a resemblance to the plaintive cries of emo bands from the early 2000s, and seemingly out of nowhere, it's brought him to pop music's forefront.
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For the first season, the pre-eminent drummer and sometime keyboardist Jack DeJohnette recorded his first solo piano album, "Return," a collection of gentle but austere compositions, often in a plaintive minor key.
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In 1973 she released "Mi fa morir cantando," an Italian-language version of "Killing Me Softly With His Song," the plaintive ballad that was a No. 1 hit for Roberta Flack that year.
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My colleague got a very plaintive text from him, but he took it very personally because, and he's hit back, I find this... He went on the BBC last week to spread actual misinformation.
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"I could no longer bear even to pick up the phone; I'd just listen to the answering machine, afraid or unwilling to pick up, the plaintive entreaties of the caller an annoyance," he wrote.
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Instead of demanding you demonstrate your commutative algebra skills at our weekly meetings, we downplayed your genius: she's just learning to count, you had us say, adhering to your plaintive Zen family therapy requests.
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Her drum kit this time is perfectly real, as is the plaintive ache woven through this energetic song-cycle play, written and directed by Ms. Satter, with music by Chris Giarmo and Erin Markey.
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The members—known as Tuface, BlackFace, and Faze—sometimes performed in matching outfits and often sang in matching voices, delivering plaintive, briskly syncopated love songs that bore traces of R. Kelly and Destiny's Child .
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A lot of that's down to producer Stelios Phili, who left the plaintive atmospherics of "Rocket Man" intact, reworking the chords without upending the balladry, keeping a muted beat for Thugger to hover over.
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On Thursday, during just a few solo moments in Janacek's teeming rhapsody for orchestra "Taras Bulba" (conducted by Jakub Hrusa), Mr. Huang sent plaintive, quizzical phrases soaring with his melting sound and lyrical elegance.
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Falwell, in light of Mr. Trump's attacks on those he happens to dislike at the moment," asked one, Michael L. Brown, in a plaintive open letter, "How can you point to his Christlike character?
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The focus of public attention appears to be shifting from the well-documented defects of the health care law to the plaintive pleas of people terrified of losing insurance if the law is repealed.
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Behind me, toward the rear of the fuselage, the world's first musical instrument designed exclusively for performance in microgravity—a sort of metallic octopus called the Telemetron—emitted plaintive digital chimes as it spun.
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All the paintings in this Guggenheim show were displayed in Péladan's annual, highly publicized exhibition: plaintive Orpheuses; pale femmes fatales; virginal maids in the wilderness, their pallid skin rendered in soft, vaporous brush strokes.
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Then there was "Over My Dead Body" on Take Care, a plaintive intro track that, like "Tuscan Leather," lays down the groundwork for what to expect on the album, from Drake and for the listener.
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In his third plaintive social media cry, Gary the dog posted the same picture with the caption, "I'll still be waiting for you......."Gary Fisher was a major part of the Star War actress' life.
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Like that confused, plaintive cry, will this be the election cycle when voters in both parties accept that they want a growing benevolent government, as long as they don't have to admit they need it?
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The plaintive question this historian and physician is compelled to ask is how much longer will we have to wait before every American citizen is guaranteed the right to health and access to health care?
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"Shame/Retreat" is all delicate folk melodies and sparse, plaintive vocals, while songs like "Self Mutilation by Fire and Stone" rumble awake like sleeping mammoths and"Silent Salt" slings shards of hurly-burly noise rock.
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Songs start with a plucked outar, a lute-like instrument, or a zokra, the predecessor to the oboe, along with plaintive singing about, say, wishing to be the bird in the bosom of one's lover.
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"Birds of May" proves that he should add his voice to more of his material, as the weathered quality of his phrasing matches the plaintive acoustic picking, while "Try It On" is a clear highlight.
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Working with the Pakistani vocalist Ali Sethi, she chose ragas dealing with themes of water, rain and thunder; these raga-inspired passages were sung by Mr. Sethi on Thursday with both rawness and plaintive delicacy.
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Seahawks 123, Giants 7 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Seattle Seahawks were losing at halftime on Sunday to the hapless, undermanned Giants, and Richard Sherman felt he could hear a plaintive wailing from across the country.
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It would take some kind of bus crash involving several of the other candidates to propel her to victory now, despite the plaintive cries from the centrist pundit class about how sensibly electable she is.
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The performances are uniformly excellent, and Tom Kitt's arrangements of Morissette's iconic tunes are lovely; a plaintive "Hand in My Pocket" and a standing ovation-snagging "You Oughta Know," both performed by Patten, are standouts.
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Prince Siegfried is nowhere to be seen; this Swan Queen is barefoot and bald; and as Tchaikovsky's plaintive violin melody begins, her movements incorporate balletic sweep and the grounded, hip-shaking, stamping notes of African dance.
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Kagame, who posted a plaintive message this month about Wenger's departure from "my beloved Club Arsenal", came to power after the 1994 genocide and has recently changed the constitution to allow him to stay until 2034.
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Its repertoire spanned slow, plaintive, burnished instrumental melodies; somber traditional songs and quick-fingered, breakneck dance tunes that had the cellist twirling onstage and the audience happily clapping and stamping as if sharing a Cretan hoedown.
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The 2013 song "Say Something," which she remade as a duet based on the original by the indie pop duo A Great Big World, is the kind of sad, plaintive ballad she might have originated herself.
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Doomed crime boss Gianna D'Antonio (Italian star Claudia Gerini) faces John with resigned, plaintive fury, and Common plays her bodyguard Cassian with so much brutal nuance, Stahelski should sign him on to take over the franchise.
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The husband, reports Someecards (where you can see his entire photo essay in all its glory), decided to turn the couple's Ikea trip into his very own plaintive lament on really not wanting to be there.
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"When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired" (Grand Jury Music) Kristine Leschper, the singer and songwriter from Athens, Ga., who leads Mothers, has a plaintive, slender voice that quavers and slides around her melodies.
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You can develop a resurrection mechanic in a video game in a thousand different ways, and yet these chose the plaintive screams of the dying as the keystone of keeping the action going in the game.
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Others — like those from the plaintive crooner Richard Desjardins, the folkloric group Les Cowboys Fringants and the Quebec rocker Éric Lapointe — are such a part of Quebec's musical tapestry that leaving them out seemed a sacrilege.
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While the former's plaintive chorus neatly displays his vocal ache, the beauteous backup vocals on the latter hardly flatter a song whose kind wishes for a friend surviving cancer don't diverge from received ideas or language.
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Making her Met debut in the role of Schicchi's young daughter, Lauretta — she of the plaintive and elevator-friendly "O mio babbino caro" aria — the Russian soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan stopped time with her honeyed, robust voice.
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Maybe it's a curdling of the hyperoptimistic, #girlboss, "Run the World (Girls)" feminism of the aughts, characterized by an uneasy combination of plaintive begging and swaggering confidence that gender equality was just past the horizon line.
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" The likely answers to these "practical" questions, Pappin contends, require conservatives to make practical "use of the administrative state" for right-wing ends, rather than constantly returning to "plaintive, nostalgic and counterproductive calls for its abolition.
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Set to the plaintive tune of James Vincent McMorrow's "Wicked Game" (get it?), the trailer shows characters from all across Westeros questioning themselves and trying to move forward while making dire declarations and furrowing their brows.
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Plaintive, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, it felt like the arrival not so much of a new sound as of a new energy, not least because the lead artist credited, YFN Lucci, was more or less a complete unknown.
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The trumpeter Keyon Harrold, at SubCulture on Friday, played songs in hard, midtempo grooves, joyous or plaintive, with a loose quintet; the saxophonist J. D. Allen joined after a while, and the situation could have absorbed others.
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Bloody Tyrant's slick take on modern, folkym melodic black metal comes with a decidedly Taiwanese bent that's augmented by their use of the pipa, a traditional four-stringed instrument reminiscent of a lute with a plaintive voice.
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Music plays a major part in the wordless world of the film, with Brazilian hip-hop, blasting marching band music, and plaintive pan flute tunes setting the tone for various scenes and helping to build the setting.
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A blend of Nashville honky tonk, plaintive acoustic folk, and Appalachian bluegrass, the album is populated with the tales of the types of the stubborn, hard living, lapsing Christians Childers has grown up around all his life.
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The "Tamil Film Songs" number, a duet for a bullying fusspot of a male dance teacher (Brian Lawson) and his plaintive but resilient female student (Stacy Martorana) is the evening's comic highlight, a piece of fabulous silliness.
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On Wednesday, in "O patria mia," Aida's wrenching Act III aria, Ms. Netrebko sang the music's plaintive, long-spun phrases with a subdued yet penetrating beauty that recalled the great Leontyne Price, who once owned this role.
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Except for Roscoe Mitchell's "Jamaican Farewell," a slow, plaintive waltz in 3/4, all of the songs are Taborn's, and they feel at once unpredictable (composed in distinct sections, often moving between different time signatures) and inexorable.
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The season opens with the faintest noise: A single French horn bleats a plaintive melody while a platoon of hoary men from the Royal Mail service, all wearing dark suits, shuffles into a stateroom in Buckingham Palace.
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The nearby lunch tables were filled with gallerists and businessmen, but Diamanda Galás put down her biscotto, opened her mouth slightly and proceeded to hold a single note — a low, plaintive note — for what felt like an eternity.
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But the three share indisputable similarities: they approach indie rock from a deliberate and plaintive perspective that skews more toward emo, folk, and blues than toward punk, and they write the kind of lyrics that warrant close reading.
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"Wanderer" isn't quite an unaccompanied ballad (her own voice is layered behind her, in a ghostly self-harmony), but it nonetheless recalls the early recordings of Appalachian singers who unleashed plaintive songs of sorrow with no instrumental backing.
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (24111:22).
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (519653:2239).
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (2811:800).
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The three female characters in this plaintive, meandering trilogy of short plays are all displaced persons of a sort, uprooted from the Texas or Louisiana towns where they grew up and where they still live in their thoughts.
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (2:10).
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (245:2212).
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (74003:10).
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This plaintive trilogy of short plays, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring a peerlessly gabby Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, may meander, but it offers a vibrant take on the significance of loquacity in Foote's world (21535:245).
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They have been wonderfully diverse, from the plaintive love ballads of Richard Desjardins to the hip-hop tunes of Quebecois band Dead Obies, who rap in Franglais, a mix of English and French that is oh so Quebecois.
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In those presentations, several of Ms. Monk's stylistic hallmarks were in evidence: unpredictable yet ensorcelling rhythmic grooves; trebly, chattering murmurs arising from groupings of singers; solo passages requiring the deep, plaintive power of the composer's shockingly serene voice.
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Along with contemporaries like Nils Frahm and Jon Hopkins' more plaintive work, two-piece Icelandic outfit, Kiasmos are known for melding classical, ambient-tinged melodies with immersive electronic sounds that massage your mind and body in blissful tandem.
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In Ennis's final soliloquy, after Jack has died (almost surely, as Ennis suspects, from a savage attack by men who know the truth about him), Mr. Wuorinen gets the balance between plaintive expressivity and modernist edginess exactly right.
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Loren Ludwig was 15 and trying to figure out how to play the Bach cello suites on his electric guitar when he first heard the plaintive, mellow sound of the viol on a cassette of the movie's soundtrack.
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As King Herod, Cooper acquitted himself perfectly fine in his one jazzy solo, and as the pining Mary Magdalene, Sara Bareilles did as much as she could to spruce up a thin role with her gorgeous, plaintive interpretation.
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To that end, today biologist Tim Halliday has released The Book of Frogs, a huge, beautiful compendium of 600 frogs from around the world, from the famed poison-arrow variety on up to the intriguingly named plaintive rain frog.
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" He also dug into Kavanaugh's defense, noting that the female friends the judge listed off while trying to paint a more temperate picture of himself wasn't testimony so much as a "plaintive, spoken-word cover of 'Mambo No. 5.
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Sterling Hyltin and Robert Fairchild's partnership in "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" is the most felicitous in New York dance; the extraordinary drama they reveal in the Aria II duet is so double-edged that it keeps deepening its plaintive spell.
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Perhaps that's why it makes sense that Sampha—an artist renowned for his plaintive, thoughtful disposition—grew up at arm's length from London, in the comfort of his mother's home in Morden: Terminus of the London Tube's Northern Line.
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By the time father and son are driving home, motoring past miles of abject Detroit streets as Rick Sr. plots their future, a plaintive world — of dreams, broken promises and the two-bit con — has promisingly come into view.
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The plaintive lyricism of that quintessential American composer can be heard in Mr. Reich's two most recent large-scale works, "Pulse," and "Runner," both of which will be performed by Ensemble Signal at Zankel Hall on Thursday, Nov. 212.
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In 1985 she released "Somos Todos Iguais," toggling between plaintive samba and bluesy ballads, backed by a mix of hand drums and synthesizers and electric guitars (on that album she and Mr. Veloso duet on Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady").
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Other highlights included "Light of the Seven," from last season's finale, which built from a plaintive piano figure into a pulsing dirge as the stage flooded with green light, representing the "wildfire" that incinerated the Great Sept of Baelor.
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As the plaintive call to prayer reverberates from the minarets piercing the sky on Zamalek, bottles of prosecco (211 Egyptian pounds, or about $22005) are popped and laptops are pecked under umbrellas on the elegant patio of the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
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The beats, which stack comical piano and plaintive electronic flute atop skittery drum machine loops, are quite hooky in a repetitive way, yet they don't actively tickle the hook receptors or the aggression cortex like trap-rap is supposed to.
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Their tireless efforts to ensure that black lives do indeed matter stand as an elegantly poignant answer to Rodney King's plaintive question as Los Angeles and America collectively tasted the ashes of racial injustice: "Can't we all just get along?"
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" Once inside, Cookie Monster would become enamored with a painting of Amedeo Modigliani's mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne, not for its plaintive beauty for its potentially esculent quality: "See pretty picture with lady inside/It look delicious, me fit to be tied!
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When the show premiered in 2011, Deschanel was well-known for her roles in a variety of films, ranging from the sweetly plaintive (All the Real Girls) to the kookily mainstream (Elf) to somehow both at once (500 Days of Summer).
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And based on the five pieces he's sharing today (one from each disc), it seems in his usual mode of plaintive, otherworldly ambience—music composed in moments of deep self-reflection in order to inspire the same in its listeners.
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It's a deceptively low-key tune, a plaintive pop song that manages to synthesize an entire era into just over four minutes: the sound of 20-somethings walking home at dawn to water near-dead houseplants in grimy Williamsburg apartments.
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Or to recognize the plaintive self-reassurance in the rhythmic physical undulations that Ms. Yurevich's Natalia sustains as she carefully remembers remembering her early days out of prison, when freedom felt like an illusion that could evaporate in an instant.
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Plaintive as her appeals to common sense may be ("I honestly don't believe the stuff you're coming out with," she lets fly at Edward), Gayle doesn't command the author's attention to the same degree as the professionals in her midst.
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The plaintive, girlish rendition of the elegiac show tune, the weird mien and awkward quasi-life of the characters, and the magical-realist entrance and disappearance of the flying creatures combine with our knowledge of the setting to elicit a certain melancholy.
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Her "Bad Babies" series, Technicolor studies created in the early '90s of plaintive Manga-like pubescent girls depicted naked from the waist down, earned her a reputation as a provocateur when she was just a few years out of Yale's MFA painting program.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke on women; Senator Cory Booker, an appealing if slightly plaintive talent, on inequality; Senator Bernie Sanders was supposed to speak on criminal justice, but reprised his stump speech on the "oligarchy in this country, whose greed is insatiable".
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There is so much beauty that, for all the sonic abstractions attached to it, is almost plaintive in its presentation, with Ocean's lyrics touching on a variety of big themes—sex, death, youth, drugs, aging, trust, safety, alienation—without giving too much away.
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Highlights like the whispered intimacy of "Our Way To Fall," the plaintive, Pynchon-referencing "The Crying of Lot G," and the sprawling, near 18-minute "Night Falls on Hoboken" proved that And Then Nothing… could demand attention while rarely going over a whisper.
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Google has so many messaging strategies because it doesn't have an option that's an easy win: there's a next-gen SMS standard, its own messaging app, and a (somewhat plaintive and naive) hope that it could convince other companies to agree to interoperation.
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Future records would feature the plaintive "Don't Go Away", the moody "Where Did It All Go Wrong" and the existential "Little by Little": "why am I really here?" asks a man who once told listeners to "wipe the shit from your shoes".
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For Act II, Mr. Glass also perhaps came the closest in his career to writing a traditional operatic love duet, as Akhnaten and Nefertiti affirm their devotion in plaintive phrases that waft and intertwine, while the orchestra suggests their teeming inner emotions.
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In a plaintive appeal that gives chutzpah a bad name, the United Nations (I'm not making this up) has issued an appeal for $220006 million in humanitarian aid for North Korea, as aid agencies say 2202 percent of the population is undernourished.
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The plaintive hip-hop track begins with a few fiery "whoop whoops" lifted from KRS-One's "Sound of Da Police," with audio clips of news headlines, brutal arrests, and the final moments of Eric Garner's life pulsing through lush beatwork and smooth vocals.
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The song is a Wheezy-produced meditation that features Thug exploring seemingly every single nook of his broad vocal range, from plaintive yelps on the chorus to an odd flow on the third verse that sounds like Thug steadily transforming into Louis Armstrong.
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A native of Tehran who grew up playing the tar (a lute with a plaintive twang like a banjo's), Mohammad is drawn to the cadence of classical Persian poetry and music, in which the placement of silence is as important as the sound.
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Mr. Petty, who ended up singing just a few plaintive lines, is a perfect foil to Ms. Nicks, prompting generations of fans to wonder about an alternate reality where he, and not Lindsey Buckingham, joined her in Fleetwood Mac in the mid-1970s.
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There were plaintive, open-landscape chord progressions followed by eager, dashing piano solos, and then a ballad of sighing harmonies sung with his sister, Elena Pinderhughes, a standout flutist and vocalist who made a few cameo appearances that nearly stole the show.
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Sometimes it's the classification of a particular call (the Spotted Sandpiper's "alarm call near nest" and its "flight song) or an attempt to understand what bird sounds might mean, to us and to them (a Jackdaw's plaintive call is interpreted as "Come back.
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Think of 18th-century heroines — "La Nouvelle Héloise" and "Letters of a Portuguese Nun," women dying of and for love — or perhaps of "Story of O," also conceived as a kind of letter to a lover, whose plaintive, eroticized submissiveness A. often echoes.
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For abiding theatrical firepower, it was difficult to beat the soul-stirring ensemble gathered by Irish writer-director Conor McPherson for "Girl From the North Country," a play with music that thrummed to the plaintive back catalog of Nobel laureate Bob Dylan.
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Better overly delicate electronica than dry acoustic strumming, but dry acoustic strumming is indeed the relevant alternative — in an earlier era he'd certainly have picked up a guitar and performed his plaintive relationship ballads in coffeehouses, perhaps with clumsy harmonica interludes between each verse.
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After the now infamous GOP "autopsy" of Romney's defeat, punctuated by a plaintive call for Republicans to support immigration reform, Rubio switched positions again and became chief promoter of the bipartisan Gang of Eight group of senators that successfully passed a reform bill in 2013.
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Cellist Jessica Bundy glides through the murk like a will-o'-the-wisp, her strings plaintive and eerie in turn (especially on the gorgeous epic "Memento Mori"), as Quist coaxes tense, complex riffs from his own, and Anson Bishoff's drums provide a steady anchor.
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But our voices were thin and plaintive and without hope, and Daddy paid little heed to us but continued driving and humming to himself, and in the front seat, Esther was crying in her soft helpless way, and in the backseat, we were very quiet.
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And 2005's literature prize went to the internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria for introducing millions of readers to a plaintive cast of characters, each of whom requires just a small amount of money to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled.
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The song selections were a little on the nose tonight, but the juxtaposition of James Brown's "Living in America" with the Saigon backdrop was rousing, as was the plaintive cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars" as an introduction to the revived Dr. Manhattan.
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I first got a hint that I might need to get my butt in gear when I received a plaintive note: "When the earthquake happens, will someone check on us to make sure we're not stuck on the second story of our house?" someone asked.
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Xam Duo, better known as Matthew Benn of Hookworms and Christopher Duffin of Deadwall, have already created beautiful, ambient meditations—ranging from Eno-esque loops to plaintive piano movements—but playing that warmth off against Virginia Wing's spare, occasionally icy post-pop creates something fascinating.
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The release of Skrapz is Back 2 in March 2014 (laced with outstanding tracks like the plaintive "Letter to my Fans" and the Giggs collab "Well Connected") was followed later in the year by tape 80s Baby, an idea which came about during his time in jail.
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On a recent late-afternoon walk along the western edge of Riis Beach, I was met with a raucous parade of oystercatchers, and off in the distance, the tiny, plaintive calls of a piping plover were still peculiarly audible over the hiss of a stormy Atlantic Ocean.
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Yet what is unmistakable — it's etched in Pitt's wounded, crumpled humanity and in Gray's plaintive earnestness — is that "Ad Astra" is unambiguously a film of its moment, one about a man's struggle for personal meaning and a place in the world in a time of fallen fathers.
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On the first anniversary of her arrest, the Huawei technology executive Meng Wanzhou has written a reflective, sometimes plaintive letter describing her year in detention in Vancouver as having "moments of fear, pain, disappointment, helplessness, torment, and struggle" but also acceptance and more time for herself.
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As with those avatars of bathetic yearning, Day6's ballads, so huge and soaring and plaintive, are kitsch masterpieces — the magnificent "I Smile," its solemn, arpeggiated guitar chime ringing out through the air, flaunts heartbreak the way a jock might bare a set of washboard abs.
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He was a man among gods, grinding out rock 'n' roll with a growly Rickenbacker guitar and a plaintive warble, while the next generation was holding the genre together with weirdness and sonic bombast (The Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers — what we used to call "alternative" bands).
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Merle Haggard was born in a boxcar in 1937, grew up on the plaintive strains of Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell, and—when he wasn't busy getting arrested for hopping trains and shoplifting—occupied himself by eking out the first stirrings of what would become his signature sound.
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But if you want to really understand American politics in the summer of 2019, it makes sense to tune out the carnival barker's antics for a moment and consider a plaintive memo issued earlier on Wednesday by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz — one of America's top business law firms.
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They make plain their appreciation for a good rock 'n' roll riff throughout the album, but its final statement, "The Sparrow," is as close to a power ballad as Agrimonia has ever gotten, thanks to a plaintive guitar solo echoing through the murk and delicately down-tempo opening salvo.
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There was a moment in Eli Paperboy Reed's gospel quartet class recently, at the end of Blind Willie Johnson's plaintive "Let Your Light Shine on Me," when Asher Bethune, a reserved 19-year-old, hit a note so low, so unexpectedly, that the other students jumped and shouted.
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And now each night, and all night long, Over those plains still roams the Dong; And above the wail of the Chimp and Snipe You may hear the squeak of his plaintive pipe While ever he seeks, but seeks in vain To meet with his Jumbly Girl again; . . .
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For reasons that I fail to grasp, the movie skips over the high noon of the couple's fame—which ran roughly from the late nineteen-twenties to the outbreak of war, though diehard devotees would stretch it out longer—and chooses to focus, instead, on its plaintive dusk.
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When a second dancer (Xolisile Bongwana) joins the central figure, Mr. Maqoma constructs an intricate, grappling pas de deux that suggests dependence, vulnerability, perhaps illness or death; choir members huddle to one side, lifting hands to heads as they softly sing a plaintive phrase over and over again.
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Wednesday with a plaintive message from someone else: "We've already gone through my two craft projects, painted and watched an hour of TV." At times like these, modern parents turn to Google and YouTube and Pinterest, which beckon with seemingly simple and fun science experiments for frigid temperatures.
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It was the most deferential gunpoint exchange ever, starting off with a plaintive "Ay, my fault," followed by sincerities like "Appreciate it," and "I'd give you a ride home, but …" The guy may have succumbed to the wicked ways of Robbin' Season, but that's no reason to abandon his home training.
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"When it seemed that nothing could stay the devastation, great flocks of gulls appeared, filling the air with their white wings and plaintive cries, and settled down upon the half-ruined fields," wrote Orson F. Whitney, a journalist and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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But today's commencement speeches, as evidenced by a new book ("Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear") by the novelist Carl Hiaasen and the cartoonist Roz Chast, and another ("In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It") by the actress Lauren Graham, are less fife-and-drum than plaintive bagpipe.
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And yet that story line may be overtaken by a subplot — the presence of the excommunicated Reggie Bush and the eternally angling Urban Meyer, who in their roles as Fox Sports commentators will loom over the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum like plaintive ghosts of U.S.C. football past and (perhaps) future.
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The show's Heidi character was a direct reference to the work of the American artists Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, both of whom Van Beirendonck cites as major influences in confronting the violence and oppression of childhood (Kelley's work was more abject, even plaintive; McCarthy's remains more aggressive and sexually threatening).
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The music by Beautiful Noise is an atmospheric if geographically garbled mix of forms (plaintive Arabic songs, English voice-over, electronic hum and much percussive drumming), with the musicians frequently moving around the periphery of the stage, perhaps representing the crowds, armies and secondary characters that Mr. Khan omits from his pared-down narrative.
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One by one, leaders struck urgent, plaintive — and even optimistic — notes, framing Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the court as an existential threat to decades of civil rights progress in the US. A recording of the conference, provided to BuzzFeed News by sources Wednesday night, began with the National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial.
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Ms. Carel's art generally explores extinct sounds — she recently dug through archives looking for the calls of vanished animals like the Kauai oo ("a bird with the most beautiful, plaintive song") and the golden toad (with its "resonant click"), and for recordings of bygone technologies like the phonautograph (the earliest device for recording sound).
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No great news there, of course; and more recent statements like Tillerson's plaintive praise this week of North Korean "restraint" (before Kim's appearance on state media visiting a missile-development factory and before North Korea fired short-range missiles from its east coast on Friday) suggest a J.V. team up against the ruthless Kim dynasty.
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As testaments to love go, "Spiritual Songs" is an impressive one: It's huge in scope, full of orchestrations just as urgent and climactic as "Kerou's Lament" (which also appears on the record, in a slightly different form and under the title "Lament"), complemented by the signature plaintive growl of Roberts's distinctive vocals — and the sweetness of Hoorn's.
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"We Go Home Together," the album's first single, was a collaboration with James Blake that stretched Blake's voice to it's pained limits, either at the highest end of his falsetto or the fractured extent of a wail; what starts out as a plaintive organ in the mix turns into an anguished circus nightmare by the end.
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Read more: 8 things every pet owner should know, according to expertsPet owners were found to be more attuned to 'distress sounds' from cats and dogsPeople who owned a cat or dog were more likely to be saddened by a whimper from a dog or a plaintive meow from a cat than non-pet-owners, the research found.
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Sachs's ever-problematic closing monologue, in which he warns of "evil tricks" that threaten the German body politic, is addressed to the audience, and Volle defuses its menace by adopting a plaintive, pleading manner: he is not a proto-Fascist demagogue, as in Katharina Wagner's 2007 production at Bayreuth, but a distressed prophet warning of a dark future.
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Yet, instead of a celebration, the result had the mood of a requiem — and not just because the runway was structured like a long processional, with rows of chairs creating a dim corridor in the midst of the soaring Park Avenue Armory, the rest of the space left in shadow, or because the music was plaintive and spare.
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"There's just something about Trump and Scandinavia," she wrote, from Trump's false claim in "The Art of the Deal" that his grandfather was Swedish (he was German) to his plaintive question during the notorious meeting where he allegedly complained about people coming from "shithole countries": why don't more Norwegians want to come to the United States?
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Once you get past the overheated branding, there's a plaintive streak to the Fifty Shades films, because they're not just about the fantasy of getting swept off your feet (and into a kinky relationship) by a powerful man, but about being treated respectfully by one, as an equal rather than a dismissible underling — a fantasy only because we've internalized how unlikely that is.
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That all changed a couple weeks ago when he released "Real Friends," a plaintive ballad featuring Ty Dolla $ign, followed up by "No More Parties in LA," a six-minute track in which Kanye and Kendrick Lamar rapped uninterrupted over a beat from Madlib, who specializes in the sort of dusty, boom-bap psychedelia that lands just left of hip-hop's center.
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Nishimura captures its plaintive expression of hot desire and soul-crushing disappointment in molten masses of red, orange, and yellow forms laced with shiny, drippy skeins of red paint in "Love in Vain V," and in the mostly blue-green "Love in Vain I" and the red, black, blue, and yellow "Love in Vain III," in swirling compositions of haunting beauty.
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The music they play adds color and mood to Olujimi's film, making certain passages more eerie than they would otherwise be, and making others feel dangerous, as in the scene where one of the main characters, played by Irungu Mutu, begins to climb an impossibly tall wall with his bare hands and sneakered feet, the keyboard's melody screeching and the horn going plaintive.
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The low points were a lifeless instrumental rendition of the Duane Eddy hit "Rebel Rouser" and Mr. Naughton and Mr. Osborne's pallid attempt to duplicate the vocal sound of the Everly Brothers singing "Let It Be Me." But Mr. Naughton, who has warm personal memories of his adolescence in Connecticut, deployed his rich bass-baritone to infuse "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" with a plaintive resonance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CLEVELAND, Ohio — It can be hard being a god — all that work to do creating vast universes; coping with plaintive entreaties from the downtrodden; keeping up an image of potency in the ecumenical deities' club, with all those other divinities boasting about their sexier powers or larger flocks of followers; and weathering theological spats whipped up by the fallible faithful.
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Releasing the gloomy acoustic tapes also implies a spurious view of the original album as a raw expressionist howl of pain — Dylan, in the midst of divorce, baring his tortured soul in a plaintive breakup song cycle — which may indeed be true but ignores the complexity of how his canny ability to simulate a howl of pain dovetails with his skill at constructing cultural moments and assuming personae.
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WCAL is keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and you can really hear the influence of goth and dream-pop in the tones and textures of his keys on songs like "The Jungle", "Why Do You Bother?" and "Arabian Disco", whereas "Jim" is a plaintive and oddly out-of-place classical guitar passage by Martin, who was fired by the group in late 1993 but has since maintained a congenial yet cool rapport with them in recent years.
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First, George W. Meyer and Arthur Johnston's plaintive 1926 ballad "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird": Never had no happiness Never had no fun caress I'm just a little o' beat up humanity ... Blue as anyone can be Then the Beatles' 1968 rendition of "Blackbird": Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
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Looking across the room, Mark saw a big canvas on the wall showing a landscape with reddish hills on either side of a lush green valley, and he was standing at the door now, half in half out of Suzanne's room, still without his trousers, contemplating this strange landscape, listening to the young man's plaintive voice as the two workers banged about with their measuring stick, when he woke up needing a pee.
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Lil Yachty—whether insightfully or instinctively—combined a few prevailing ideas at just the right time: the cartoonish yet plaintive Auto-Tuned fantasia of music like Speaker Knockerz and Soulja Boy's "Zan with That Lean," the way that sound intersected with the ambient pastiche of the various ambient electronic waves that show up in a crawl through Soundcloud, the matter-of-fact simplicity of artists like iLoveMakonnen and Migos, the positivity and enthusiasm of Lil B. He understood the power of connecting with the right influencers to push his brand in a way corporate entities can only dream of, and he naturally tapped into a teen understanding that the idols of the present are not the people your parents tell you to pay attention to but rather whoever happens to be famous in the present, even if that person is A$AP Rocky instead of Tupac.
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Lil Yachty—whether insightfully or instinctively—combined a few prevailing ideas at just the right time: the cartoonish yet plaintive Auto-Tuned fantasia of music like Speaker Knockerz and Soulja Boy's "Zan with That Lean," the way that sound intersected with the ambient pastiche of the various ambient electronic -waves that show up in a crawl through Soundcloud, the matter-of-fact simplicity of artists like iLoveMakonnen and Migos, the positivity and enthusiasm of Lil B. He understood the power of connecting with the right influencers to push his brand in a way corporate entities can only dream of, and he naturally tapped into a teen understanding that the idols of the present are not the people your parents tell you to pay attention to but rather whoever happens to be famous in the present, even if that person is A$AP Rocky instead of Tupac.
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