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And Anna Mirodin makes a strong New York stage debut as Ben and Mira’s 16-year-old daughter, Dolly, although the underwritten role consists mostly of familiar plaints about the depredations of the natural world by humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Jody/Joe the Grinder has continued to slink through the backstreets of American culture, popping up in scores, possibly hundreds, of poetic “toasts,” doo-wop rave-ups, blues plaints, and soul, R&B, and funk songs.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2016
The playground plaints about how busy you are aren't necessarily designed to inspire pity or aid, so much as a deep and awestruck admiration in your listener for just how much you do.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2013
Mr. Sanyal’s delivery of Warren’s bitter plaints about having to abandon his dream of creating video games to work at his father’s store are hyper-nerdy and too calculatedly zany.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2011
The curfew, who had been piping their mournful plaints since long before the light, flew now from weed-bank to weed-bank.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
