Sentences with phrase «plaintive cry»

During varmint - calling time the Arizona desert lands strangely resound with the shrill and plaintive cries of rabbits, arousing the curiosity of even the most sophisticated predators

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.

Rather, it is a plaintive cry for the need to actively engage this problem, for the elevation of concern for racial equality to a position of priority on our government's domestic affairs agenda.

This is my plaintive cry whenever I see someone entering a festival toilet.

The piece de resistance was a recorded dramatization of her rape, replete with heavy breathing, plaintive cries, groans and the like.

That was the case when various speakers mentioned «the Christian roots of Europe,» which in that context sounded too much like a plaintive cry: «Hey, don't ignore us.

«We had our opportunities, men, and we just didn't take advantage of them,» Schottenheimer said, louder than he wanted, trying to be heard over the plaintive cries.

Of course my hungry kids made a beeline to the table, oblivious to my plaintive cries of «Wait!

If officials of the big corporations that make infant formula resembled their consumers, the sound of plaintive cries and choked wails might at this very instant be replacing happy coos and gurgles in the executive suite.

The statement «We are the 99 %» in this context was a plaintive cry for the proof of one's own existence.

That plaintive cry came hours before the party lost another of its options to face Cuomo, when Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro said he would not be a gubernatorial candidate.

According to Karen McComb of the University of Sussex, UK, domestic cats hide a plaintive cry within their purrs that both irritates owners and appeals to their nurturing instincts.

Suzuki also found that triceratops, a rhino - like herbivore with three horns, made a sound not unlike the plaintive cry of a whale.

(One administrator offered the plaintive cry, «I feel like a human API,» which was terribly funny if you know what an API is and what an accountability officer at a charter management organization does for a living.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

But for now, stop that plaintive cry and put a full stop to Lock and key story.