Word: wailful
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...biggest guy at St. Paul's" the 6-ft., 170-lb. left wing says, "but here, defensemen love to wail on little freshmen...
...that means flinging in poetry from Byron, music from Beethoven or borrowings from the past 20 years of avant-garde theater, so be it. His stage effects are frequently apt and memorable. When Dantes is thrown into a dungeon, he and a grizzled fellow prisoner (David Warrilow) wail about their plight as their bodies sink beneath the stage. Soon only their heads are visible, lighted starkly from below, in a striking, Beckett-like image of existential despair...
Across town, customers of Home State kept up a wail of protest because their savings will remain frozen until authorities find a healthier partner to take over the shuttered bank. About 3,000 depositors gathered last week at Xavier University's field house for an emotional rally to urge the state to speed up action. New York's Citicorp has emerged as the prime merger candidate. A host of state and federal investigators are looking into Home State's ties with E.S.M. Government Securities, a Fort Lauderdale dealer in Treasury bills and bonds whose March 4 closing forced Home State...
...will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using my loud voice." Instead she will display a compulsion for propriety at all costs. "Let's not talk about it any more," she exclaims. "It's a holiday!" And on holiday, Sternhagen's trill ascends to a wail, and she practically flutters into orbit over her brood...
...persisted until I relented, put her waffles in the toaster, lifted her up on her chair, and gave her a glass of cranberry-orange juice. Soon thereafter, the baby started to wail from lack of attention. It was then that I knew I could never be a mother...