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 ?"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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He quickly recovered from such gratuitous plaintiveness, however, and cited " a great Vietnam soup house, Pho 75 in Arlington, 15 delicious varieties of stew, $ 4.95 for a big bowl you can't finish ."
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It has some of the sweeping, choir-driven emotion normally associated with the genre, but much of it eschews big rave-ups in favor of piano-ballad gospel, and even some slide-guitar plaintiveness, that puts the focus squarely on her marvelously intact voice.
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Bell's approach is direct and non-syrupy; " I've Got Plenty o'Nuttin "'has swagger and dash, while " My Man's Gone Now " is rendered with the sobbing plaintiveness of a top-notch vocalist.
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Days later, Ashman told Menken he had AIDS . He died in 1991, just after finishing " Aladdin " and months before " Beauty " was released with a title song whose plaintiveness was deepened by the audience's knowledge of its lyricist's fate.
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Cantagrill memorably captures the swaggering bravado of Brahms's Hungarian Dances nos . 1 & 5; and rarely has the soulful plaintiveness of Rachmaninoff's ravishing Vocalise been so powerfully conveyed as here . . . " " [ " The Strad Magazine "-U . K ]"
