Sentences with phrase «more plaintive»

As the barriers to entry grow ever higher, the wish to tear through the walls grows more urgent, more plaintive, and yet perhaps more futile.

And other current events include the women's march in January 2017, President Obama on the tarmac, the riots in Ferguson, and an athlete's more plaintive protest.

For the rest of it, I defer to Bill's spot - on capsule review, especially the part about Mia Farrow's more affordable sister — playing, appropriately enough, Daisy Buchanan's more plaintive doppelgänger.

The cry sometimes becomes even more plaintive, «What do I eat for breakfast if I / my spouse / children don't like / can't eat eggs?»

Not exact matches

This development in turn has given rise to the increasing plaintive cries, including Hunter's own, for more attention to theological reflection in the exercise of this ministerial office.

More competitors come flowing in, and in the welcoming tumult, one plaintive common cry carries through the crowd: «Beer?

Nintendo seems to have finally heard the plaintive cries of despairing Metroid fans everywhere, because this month they released Metroid: Samus Returns, a remake of a Game Boy game which I once forced myself to play and finish when I was younger and had more time on my hands.

«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.»