Sentences with phrase «plaintive voice»

«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.»

She called me «my lady,»» she told him in a plaintive voice.

The effect of Darnielle's powerful lyrics and plaintive voice, set against the luminous colors of Anonymous 4, was just magical.

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Hell Is A Place Of Everlasting Noise, Where Voices, Plaintive And Obnoxious Cry Over And Over Again Their Favourite Word In constant iteration: I, I, I. Hell Is A Place Where Mirrors Are Black Water, And Rivers Salt, And Atmosphere Like Lead, Where Suffering Is All The Rage And Fashion, And everything is dead except the dead.

Moments later, the voice of the late Howard Zinn tangentially comments on the image, providing the film its ideological husk through his plaintive reminder that «the soul of history is economic.»

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.

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.