Sentence examples for plaintive quality from inspiring English sources

They had a soulful, almost plaintive quality to them.

Anita Johnson brought a similar, if more plaintive, quality to the son.

Ms. Norman gives them a touching, plaintive quality, her opulent tone further cushioning the tender phrasing.

There is a slightly plaintive quality in his voice when he adds, "Nobody cared".

Yet the comment had a plaintive quality, coming as it did from a man with considerable experience in Washington.

Down in the Flood sounds basically like a strict Delta blues, with a mellow sound and a plaintive quality running through it.

How would you describe Armenian music? A. Armenian church music is very distinctive; it has kind of a plaintive, mournful quality.

"There's a plaintive, emotional quality to it," De Backer said.

It was a litle like a Monty Python sketch - stylized, brightly colored and determinedly goofy - but complimentary to the plaintive, folkish quality of Stravinsky's music.

A second work by Mr. Faingold, "Continuums," for solo cello, is clearly the work of the same hand: the cello line, played by Leat Sabbah, shares the songs' plaintive, melodic quality, and even as the writing grows increasingly elaborate, a lyrical impulse remains at its heart.

With titles like "Call on Me," "Who Am I" and "Vanishing Act," they bring out a plaintive, yearning quality that is not perhaps the most obvious trait of either Poe or Mr. Reed but that is very much present in both artists.