Sentence examples of "plaintive" in English

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Now this one is about a man out late on a fairy hill on the eve of Samhain who hears the sound of a woman singing sad and plaintive from the very rocks of the hill. Эта рассказывает о мужчине, который пришел на холм фей в канун Самхейна, он слышал грустную и жалобную песню женщины, звучавшую из камней на холме.
In a plaintive soprano accompanied by a cello’s lament, lingering between song and silence, the memory came back to me on Monday morning, the day after the second round of France’s parliamentary election. Воспоминание о печальном сопрано, которое под аккомпанемент скорбящей виолончели колеблется между пением и молчанием, пришло мне на ум в понедельник утром, на следующий день после второго тура парламентских выборов во Франции.
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