Sentences with phrase «literally plaintive»
The missionaries are literally plaintive in their appeal that the church of Christ re-establish her long lost unity.
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The somber palette and atmospheric forms in «The Kiss II» evokes the dreaminess and sadness of a parting kiss of an embracing couple in abstract terms; the colors and the marks feel plaintive even if they don't literally read that way.