plaintively

"Why, Mr Eric, " a clearly confused Gadaffi plaintively asked me, "why are the Americans trying to kill me? "

"There is so much that you do not know about me, " she told him plaintively.

Users seem to ignore the plentiful invitations to get involved: "We're furniture in the living room, " he says plaintively.

It's times like these that I plaintively cry for my phantom butler. True to form, he never shows.

Mr Obama argued plaintively that he had nursed the economy through the crisis inherited from his predecessor.

"Where were the ethnic armies? " asked one resident of Yangon, plaintively, of the uprising against the junta in September.

Peering fearfully over the edge of the chasm, he sees deep below the missing lamb, plaintively bleating.

The stars tingled with self-aggrandisement, plaintively tugging at her attention.

he asked himself plaintively , then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast.

The saga leaves her shuffling plaintively from room to room, the legend at rest, or being examined by her doctor. He asks her how she feels.

As one friend said plaintively, "Parents need special time, too. "

Why did they let the government take over? she asks plaintively. I need my family doctor back.

demanded, plaintively, the drunkest of the three.

"Why does God not kill me straight away? " he wrote plaintively. The end came soon.

"Why? What did I do wrong? " he asks plaintively.