Plaints

Case's voice, rich and full and aching, is perfectly suited to these kind of plaints, and she swoons and heaves like a flickering '50s crooner in an old black-and-white newsreel.

Her masterwork continues to be her beloved 1993 debut LP "Exile in Guyville," which widened indie-rock's purview to allow for more than just plaints from sensitive and sarcastic young boys. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

She remembered, dimly, the blight of hard times in the past, and the plaints of fathers and mothers in those days returned to her with a new significance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, after another 100 years since 1900, the scientific method has caught up with some of the original plaints, so the Austrian school may now have some catching up of their own to do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for the smaller creditors who stood in the way of a deal which would have avoided bankruptcy, I have very little time for their plaints. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A number of these plaints appeared in my first pet peeve column, written in the 1980s. ❋ Roger K. Lewis (2010)

How could an avowed jazz fanatic be oblivious to the similar plaints once sparked by the music of his youth? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He took a moment to indulge in a bit of pardonable pride in himself; not for him the plaints of lesser men, who bleated about the fettering of their great gifts to the rock of bureaucracy, the loss of their personal time, the sacrifice of their relationships and families on the altar of Duty. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

She put her hands over her ears, closing her eyes tight to shut the angels out, but instead she kept them in; they started up seriously inside her brain, moving into her consciousness and formulating their meaningless plaints. ❋ Liza Marklund (2010)

Out of a decent respect for the opinions of the Obamaniacs I have now suffered through the koskids plaints. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not so good for the rest of the world, either, whose nations have been disbelievingly howling, in Babels of translations, that most American of plaints: "Say it ain't so." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet in the long run, we came to accept their com-plaints -- it is now legally and morally unacceptable to run sweatshops and engage in oppressive child-labor practices. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Volumes of plaints I had prepared, reproach and blame, ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘Upon a rock,’ she answered, ‘thy plaints are wasted clean.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘On a rock,’ Said she, ‘such as my heart is, thy plaints are wasted clean.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of the standard plaints is that the Democrats – and the liberals – don't have a platform. ❋ Unknown (2008)