The word 'plaintive' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something as sorrowful, mournful, or wistful. For example, "The plaintive cries of the lost child echoed through the empty streets."
He claims: "They totally didn't even say 'hello' or 'thanks', they just replied with, 'It's not yours, it's ours, and we're not even asking you any more.'" Aphex Twin's Avril 14th is a plaintive keyboard instrumental which first appeared on 2001's Drukqs.
Many a high-profile tweeter has confused the "search" and "update status" boxes, leading to such horrors as @edballsmp's plaintive "ed balls".
Later, after public condemnation had descended upon him – and after he realised that not only had he offended the public, but may have committed a crime, Peterson made a statement as plaintive as it is bewildered: "I never imagined being in a position where the world is judging my parenting skills, or calling me a child abuser," he said.
A quarter of a century after I was hanging around Brent Cross, I was one of the team at the New Economics Foundation on the Clone Town Britain campaign, a plaintive cry against everywhere looking the same.
To confirm our suspicions, we called Matteah up at home in New York to discuss noise and silence, and how her music – featuring low sonic rumbles and abstract effects, her plaintive vocals and guests such as Devendra Banhart – was suggestive either of residual pain after a squall of emotion, or of impending thunder.
He supports the plaintive call by Raghu Rajan, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), for more co-operation between central banks.The dollar is imperial; the Fed is parochial.
Jim Flaherty, the finance minister, sounded almost plaintive when he reminded a group of executives last month that the government had reduced tax rates, cut red tape and increased tax incentives to encourage them to invest.
THE plaintive final public appearance of Zhao Ziyang on Tiananmen Square on May 19th 1989 was the curtain call marking the end of a power struggle that had been raging for weeks around the squalid encampment of student protesters in central Beijing.
From the start, he heard what made Evans one of a kind: "It was the plaintive harmony, the lyrical tone and the fresh textures that captivated so above all, it was a yearning behind the notes, a quiet passion that you could almost reach out and touch .In this section A bigger lie Is it possible?
British ministers (as well as the European Commission) argue that the lack of proper market discipline means Britain's plaintive price signals often go unheeded.That's probably true, but blaming recalcitrant Europeans does little to help British businesses, who now pay much more for gas than their continental counterparts and have to deal with yoyoing prices to boot.
America remains involved in the western Balkans and on European energy security; shamefully, few Europeans are so attentive.The ex-communist countries of Europe realise that it hurts their cause to sound plaintive, needy or nostalgic.
