A plaintive request, almost begging.

The exercise sessions resembled an endless beach party, including plaintive late-night requests for "just one more go at the balance ball."

My teachers rebuffed every plaintive request, so I was doomed to remain; fearful and anxious, undersized, fighting back tears.

Ultimately, his plaintive requests go unrequited.

Thrning down such a plaintive request from the team's sponsor wasn't a serious option.

Idaho felt shamed by the plaintive request.

A request, somewhat plaintive, to turn away from the woman to the work, which is also characteristic: "Do you mind if we talk about cast-iron architecture?"

Its Web site includes a plaintive request for money to "save the Barnes," which it warns "may close in as little as a year" without an infusion of cash.

(Why else do children try to stave off the darkness with plaintive requests to hear their favorite bedtime story just once more?)

The song records the plaintive request of a dying man not to be buried on the prairie, away from civilization.