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- Dictionaryplaintive/ˈpleɪntɪv/
adjective
- 1. sounding sad and mournful: "a plaintive cry"
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14 hours ago · Among the Suruí-Paiter, the first women, the daughters of a man and a gourd (whose round form is often seen as female), roamed the world in search of a husband—and many animals wanted to seduce them with deception: The owl with its plaintive call gave them tears instead of honey, the deer a piece of its own leg instead of venison, the heron ...
2 days ago · In advertising and marketing, a brand is a way of creating an emotional attachment between the public and a product (a good or a service – or a person such as a celebrity, politician, or other ...
5 days ago · LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) glides from one contorted idiom to the next over a bevy of lush Surf Gang beats that thump and twinkle in equal measure. Six years in the making, this bioluminescent mixtape ...
3 days ago · An approach in political science that seeks to provide an objective, quantified approach to explaining and predicting political behavior. It is associated with the rise of the behavioral sciences, modeled after the natural sciences. It should not be confused with the behaviorism of psychology. behaviorism.
5 days ago · I have been hearing for months about the increasing isolation of the president, from his one-time pals in the Senate, who find that he is unable to return their calls. Another old family friend, whose help has been sought by Biden on key issues since his days as vice president, told me of a plaintive call from the president many months ago.
4 days ago · Social media has become a major source of information and we are all drinking from the firehouse. Meetings are numerous and suck up time at a prodigious rate. Email comes gushing forth in relentless fashion and inboxes become archives. "I will get to that email" is a plaintive cry from the oppressed masses.
5 days ago · But what, exactly, is a species, and how is it defined? In biology, a species is the fundamental unit of taxonomy, the scientific system of categorizing life on Earth.
