plaintiveness

Example Sentences

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There’s a plaintiveness in that very first version of “Tangled Up in Blue” that’s unusual.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018

This might explain the sense of comic plaintiveness that has accumulated around the word “normal.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017

Their plaintiveness arouses pity now: small groups in business attire, picketing government buildings with signs reading, “Love and let love”.

From Economist • Sep. 3, 2015

The singer emphasized his hard-country material, including tracks from a forthcoming album painted in plaintiveness and bluegrass.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 22, 2012

Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan