Sentences with phrase «from plaintive»

Written by Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez, the songs cover a broad range of traditional Mexican styles, from plaintive ballads to raucous mariachi.

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Plaintive phone call from Chris: he's also banned from WhatsApp.

A mother who nursed him on lullabies and stories of old, the plaintive laments of bereft mothers, the songs yearning for freedom rising from the brickyards — they all shaped him.

From the opening, plaintive strains of the theme to the final, shocking denouement, The Winter Soldier bangs on every conceivable level.

Pope Francis said «the temptation to silence young people has always existed», and cited the many ways to keep them quiet, «to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive».

One from the heart, Salvador Allende is a plaintive look back at the rise and violent fall of the world's first democratically elected Marxist president.

«Captures a plaintive sense of the human casualties from unfettered global consumerism.»

This is a Fox Searchlight release, so naturally the musicals - loving Giles is always turning his TV dial to vintage classics from the Fox library starring Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda and Alice Faye; the latter's «You'll Never Know» becomes the plaintive soundtrack of the orphaned Elisa's love for the Amphibian Man.

You feel Shandling's drive, his passion for comedy, his thirst for what comedy can do in his life: «I demand truth,» he writes, which on its own might seem like the kind of self - help bromide people make inspirational posters out of — but here, in context, it's so plaintive and intimate you find yourself wanting to look away from the screen.

A few times each month, I'll receive a plaintive email from an author asking me why their book isn't selling better.

This power is bestowed upon her by a plaintive black cat, named «Dusty,» who appeared from nowhere to be her constant companion.

In go my quarters and out comes that familiar wail, the plaintive declaration of youthful rebellion from The Offspring, «All I Want.»

Alternately wobbling and soaring, plaintive and ecstatic, the music's field of reference moves from the blues and spirituals to refrains of the French national anthem, all in a tangle of virtuosic soloing and collective improvisation.

The effect of the show is meant to manifest itself in the range of emotion exhibited by the carefully selected works — the sense of nostalgia in Qureshi's plaintive cast concrete palm fronds from Mecca, Kley's unassuming but gorgeous cinerary urn for a dear friend, Strobert's aesthetically dazzling primer of her own body's extents, and Paine's bemused diagrams all offer traces and referents of the human experience, happily or sadly at the tail end of our unique presence as a highly evolved primate species on the earth.

As with It Is Right to Draw Their Fur, Eggers's recent work continues to combine detailed grease drawings with plaintive text, drawn increasingly from the Old Testament.

The exhibition itself ws a rousing but welcome mix, sampling everything from H. C. Westermann's woodcuts to Gino de Dominicis's Icarus - tinged video meditations to Jessica Diamond's playfully plaintive wall piece Is That All There Is?

Working directly from life also allowed him to evade academic solutions to depicting the world, instead paying attention to the complex nature of our seeing; how we map the world as we turn our head and our eyes... the kinesthetic rhythms that animate his landscapes and portraits, which also knead the hanging and splayed bodies of dead animals, suggest the bodily experience of dance and song, especially the plaintive cry of the human voice.

For all these references to the scrappy history of conceptual wall art (not to mention the plaintive Willie Nelson song from which it draws its title), «Hello Walls» is ultimately a show that's tailored to the current moment in Chelsea — which is to say, some of its wall paintings find artists doing what they normally do on an inflated scale.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

Plaintive phone call from Chris: he's also banned from WhatsApp.

When needed I gather information from the caller of plaintive name, then research for the handling attorney on that case before I cal transfer the call.

Belatedly, I checked my messages and found several missed calls, plus increasingly plaintive messages from my ex wanting to know what the hell had happened to his beloved child's hand at school.