Word: plainting
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...Father and Recognizes Him--as every Irish hero since Telemachus and Daedalus has done. O'Coonassa has no trouble; he recognizes his father by his poverty, his fate (he is leaving the prison) and his name-Jams O'Donnell. But The Poor Mouth is as much pretence as plaint. In Gaelic putting on the poor mouth means complaining (according to the dictionary) and feigning suffering to get the advantage in a deal. O'Nolan's humour is as elusive and many-faceted as his name, but The Poor Mouth hides a smile, sure. sure...
...more perceptive Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville a generation later, predicted that slavery would "sooner or later be fatal to the southern states." The young duke also recorded the sentiments of a certain Captain Chapman in Kentucky: "Our Government could be no worse than it is now." The plaint sounds remarkably up to date...
...Army soldier with clenched fist, and a sailor shielding an old woman. A plaque reads: "Here in 1941-1943 the German Fascist invaders executed over 100,000 citizens of Kiev and prisoners of war." The Jews are nowhere mentioned or portrayed, thus underscoring rather than answering Yevtushenko's plaint: "Everything here screams in silence...
...assertive piano style that makes it an instantly recognizable musical signature-as unmistakable in its way as a Beach Boys harmony or Joe Cocker's sandpaper rasp. Elton's own voice is a supple instrument. He can growl like Mick Jagger or sing an insinuating lyric plaint. He writes for himselfnot surprisingly with supreme correctness, confidence, even elegance. To an unusual degree, he is the only one who can effectively sing the songs he writes...
...want to return will be given to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. After interviews have determined that they do indeed wish repatriation, the U.N. will begin flying them back at its expense. Some elderly Vietnamese have explained the yearning to return with the classic outcasts' plaint: "I want to die in my own country." Most of the refugees, however, will still be left to struggle with all that red tape before they can even begin to make a new life...