Think about 9/11: walls covered with hundreds of photographs bearing
the same plaintive question, «Have you seen this person?»
He might even use
the same plaintive moaning tone with which that line was delivered today.
Not exact matches
One featured a mother talking over
plaintive piano about her wish for her son to have the
same rights as his sister: «Luke has goals of settling down with someone, and I want him to be able to do that.»
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.