Sentences with phrase «plaintive -lsb-»

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.

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.

The generous soundstage gave the horns plenty of room to breathe, not to mention Michael's plaintive vocal that blanketed me in feelings of longing and regret.

While the remaining software problems are not significant, the lock itself is ultimately immature, it's plaintive whine during operating is a disconcerting sign that something still isn't quite right with it.

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

Just when everyone at the table has tried to change the subject without success, the collective noise of the kids in the other room abruptly goes silent and is replaces with the solitary, plaintive wail of an injured child.

As is the case whenever people get together to talk about technology, there's a good deal of nervous and plaintive discussion about its unwelcome aspects — the way it intrudes work into formerly private time, the way it gooses the already speedy nature of our lives.

You can practically hear the landfills» plaintive moans!

The plaintive plaintiff Dr. Tim Ball - much rebuked even before he launched his ill - considered lawsuit against Dr. Dan Johnson - is roughed up yet further in the Statement of Defence filed in December by the Calgary Herald.

His plaintive response was, «Which Federal office do I apply to in order to get my reputation back?»

Here Trenberth's plaintive claim is falling on deaf ears.

The 2oC target, or even plaintive language such as «as far below 2oC as possible» offers no hope.

Although images of polar bears at sea may seem innately plaintive, the sea is in fact their element, as their scientific name — Ursus Maritimus — signifies.

«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.»

«Study for Strings,» a sound piece by the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz, unleashes a plaintive call - and - response of cellos at Kassel's intercity railroad station, where William Kentridge, collaborating with Peter L. Galison, revives a style that had gone stale with «The Refusal of Time,» an engulfing fusion of video animation, sculpture and music.

«LOS ANGELES — It was a plaintive sight: a monumental American flag drooping so low on its pole that it would touch the ground were it not for a wood platform.

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.

The high / low ambiguity that has become Dzama's trademark is on full display in the grainy black - and - white, nickelodeon - style video, which breaks the ice with humor before its plaintive music and clownish onscreen antics begin to play on our sympathies.

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.

These plaintive queries recur during the 18 minutes of Image is an Orphan (all works 2017), the looped video that is the beating heart of Shahryar Nashat's «The Cold Horizontals».

Thus we sense within these exhibited works a plaintive refrain, a fragile humming of one's «right» to free expression.

Another, with a plaintive gaze and wearing a beret that screamed either «Dutch Renaissance painter» or «mid-life crisis», was jaundice yellow, his face streaked with scarlet lines like burst blood vessels (Reproduction, 2014).

Each painting embodies the synergy of couples as they slide, glide, slither and swing to the plaintive wail of a sax calling to an unruly roll of drums.

There are surprisingly few nods to either the jubilee or the Olympics, although Vida Bewley has contributed a manic little ceramic sculpture of the Queen, draped in a tartan sash and sidesaddled on a piebald mule, with a plaintive corgi pleading to join in the fun.

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.

I am a frequent visitor to family and friends in majestic London and have been reduced to tears by the plaintive beauty of Havana de Cuba.

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.

All this suggests childhood memories, like Carsten Höller with his carousels and sliding ponds, and yet the soundtrack speaks with the voice of a plaintive child.

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?

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.

Christopher Wool's paintings put me in mind of rock»n' roll songs and how they recycle the same slender means: three, maybe four chords, a plaintive lyric repeated over and over in strict 4/4 time.

Nasty Piece Of Stuff contrasts speedy film fragments of present - day Soho nightlife with plaintive accounts of the 1960s gay scene.

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.

Painter Painter, an emphatic doubling of the word, creates a muted staccato in the mouth that sounds plaintive to the ear.

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.

At first the messages can sound funny or plaintive, an unnamed man's expression of his weakness and desires.

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.

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

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

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.

I'll remember you for what I didn't have the language or courage to ask: if any of the memories broadcast in that synagogue were yours, if the memories are even worth believing, or if they play like that, in plaintive, never - ending loop, only to cover up the silences that are worse.

THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I SEE HERE IS trumpeter hornbills in my garden, fish eagles at the Umzimkulu River, gannets diving for sardines, tiny oribi in the sugar cane fields, and the plaintive cry of the tree dassie.

• Inform all guests to ignore a pet's begging behavior, no matter how cute or plaintive, because «people food» can cause serious digestive upsets and even death.

Anxious vocalizing is usually a plaintive meow.

Meowing is normal, but excessive, plaintive meowing may indicate an underlying cause, such as cognitive dysfunction.

Let's discuss some typical cat in heat sounds — and why the only way to truly stop these plaintive sounds is to spay and neuter your cats!

The plaintive howling of female cats in heat is eliminated.

According to researchers at the University of Sussex, domestic cats can hide a plaintive cry within their purrs that irritates their humans while appealing to their nurturing instincts.

After hearing Zoe's plaintive howl once, Dr. Yin let her dog sleep in her car whenever they went away on subsequent trips.

It's one of the most plaintive and probably predictive comments along these lines I've found so far.