plaintiveness

But that question’s plaintiveness also suggests that if Democratic panic is premature, complacency is more dangerous.

To properly frame the singer’s plaintiveness, the band conjured future-funk with a sleekness that felt completely organic.

And he brought a force to it of truth and beauty and simplicity and plaintiveness and a slight melancholy himself.

He also, with strained plaintiveness, scribbles “Deus Ex Machina” in a notebook.

“I thought I would have more time,” Mr. Teicher sings near the end, with premature plaintiveness.