Lorenz’s cartoons found humor in the most mundane slices of life:A patient confessing to his analyst, “I’ve lost the will to obsess”; a quizzical wife asking her husband and the family dog, both of whom are guffawing, “Is this a private joke or can anyone join in?”; a man confessing plaintively to a bank officer, “Frankly, when I took out the loan I sincerely thought we’d all be blown to hell before it came due.
Source: The New York Times
A Taiwanese immigrant plaintively recounts (with English supertitles) what it’s like to lose a parent who’s on the other side of the world.
Source: Blogcritics
Harry and Meghan do not drop bombs; at most, they point plaintively at existing craters.
Source: The New York Times
(You will tire of Larry plaintively calling, “Keeg?” as he searches for his missing adolescent spirit-child.
Source: The A.V. Club
If no one showed up for his classes at the Conservatory, he might stop by Massenet’s classroom, pop his head in the door and plaintively ask, “Isn’t there anyone for me?” All of this only made him more lovable to his clique of followers.
Source: The Imaginative Conservative
As she plaintively tells Steve at the end, “I did it for you.
Source: The Digital Bits
That something just so happens to be making plant clone children, who sprout from little pods in the basement as they plaintively call out “Mommy?” in the dark in human children voices.
Source: Paste Magazine
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