plaintivenesses in a sentence

1. But from those on the other side I hear plaintiveness and anguish.
2. For one thing, the writing is sometimes exquisite in its plaintiveness:
3. Yet, the plaintiveness in his lyrical phrases gives this pathetic character an affecting depth.
4. If Manet caught a certain melancholy plaintiveness in " A Bar at the Folies-Bergere,"
5. So the alternation of duets and full sections is less marked, and the top line carries the plaintiveness of countertenor tone.
6. It's difficult to find plaintivenesses in a sentence.
7. There is no mistaking the plaintiveness in Barbieri's voice when she says, " I did the best I could.
8. Gainsbourg is a winning performer, too _ a beguiling mixture of willowy plaintiveness and slightly irregular beauty lit up by a goofy smile.
9. Even when she may not seem to be embellishing her melodies much, her timing brings out a song's plaintiveness, tension and languor.
10. She sings nasally at times, giving the tunes a dryness and plaintiveness that has weight; she sings as if she'd experienced what the songs are about.
11. In contrast, " NME " published a negative review and noted the " excessive plaintiveness of Bono's voice and the forced power of U2's sound ".
12. You can hear it in people's voices when they answer the phone, less these days with eagerness and anticipation and warmth than plaintiveness and uncertainty : " Hello ?"
13. Ian DeNolfo as Steva produces lovely, lyrical daisy chains that sound appropriately shifty, while Hugh Smith uses his height as well as his Slavonic plaintiveness to present a solid Laca brimming with untutored emotion.
14. Wilson's intent, I think, is not to distinguish the black experience, but to affirm its inclusion within the corporal and spiritual plaintiveness of humankind _ and within its literary tradition as well.
15. But in mixing members of different classes in a rigidly stratified Vienna into a shifting waltz of desire, he illuminated the plaintiveness of high but vain hopes for something better in life, for love as a transformational force.
16. William J . Bennett, the former education secretary, said in Charleston, S . C . The phrase " should be " lent an air of plaintiveness to what should have been a stem-winder of an introduction.
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