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Перевод: plaintive

[прилагательное]
жалобный; горестный; заунывный

Тезаурус:

1. Albert Finney brings four-square authority to the part of Alfred, so much so that the audience is in danger of overlooking the subtleties of Stephen Moore's performance as Michael - his plaintive vanity, the show of modest perplexity with which he explains that the situations in his plays just somehow turn out to have universal significance.
2. But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when, after the last meal of the day at six o'clock, I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window.
3. A plaintive cry from the Organisation of Africa Unity will largely go unheard in the world's chanceries.
4. I saw Colin Lambert last night," her New Zealand accent sounded excessively plaintive when she argued.
5. As a result, all four benefited from a Wembley Arena show that was a study in contrasts: Cash's rockabilly bass, Nelson's plaintive Texas whine, Jennings's bad-boy blues and Kristofferson's world-weary romanticism.
6. I always had several anthologies of poetry with me, luckily including this one, so I feverishly looked up the poem: it was Ernest Dowson's "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae" , with its plaintive refrain:
7. The chorus, repeated five times, is the plaintive, rhetorical question: "when will you die?"
8. On 17 July 1559, the answer was a scolding letter from her husband the king of France to lord James, marvelling that he, who "has the honour to be so near the Queen's Grace, my wife should be so forgetful as to make yourself the head of the tumults and seditions"; only six days later did the queen get round to sending a similarly plaintive message herself.
9. The Stravinsky, if more detached and calculated a piece, equally engages the senses here in the incisiveness of Zimmermann's playing, his thrust, his fullness of sound, the quiet restraint he shows in the concerto's plaintive moments.
10. One, a plaintive song of lost love, is a duet with Mandy Patinkin (a Tony Award winner as Che in the Broadway production of Evita and Sondheim's artist of choice for his Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday In The Park With George ), who plays her accompanist 88 Keys in the movie.
11. He was playing the mouth organ, a plaintive lament which seemed to say "I've got those didn't-get-through-my-qualifying-rounds-again blues."
12. Her plaintive whisper had projected itself right round the Hall, but this had not put paid to her determination to secure his attention.
13. Mark woke to the strangely sad and beautiful cry of the Muezzin, whose plaintive voice drifted across the ancient city to greet another dawn.