Sentences with phrase «too plaintive»

The leper's cry is too plaintive; it catches at our heart strings.

Not exact matches

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.

While this gentle drama about a man trying to prepare his family for his own death is plaintive and hopeful, the road to the end is both too long and too packed with distracting sidestories.Even...

However, the melancholy, plaintive score arguably does too much of the emotional heavy - lifting and that's because, again, these moments don't always add up genuinely.