plaint

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Produced by Pheelz, a Nigerian songwriter who adds a rap verse, “Ruin” deploys the shakers, deep log drums, soothing keyboard chords and open spaces of amapiano as Usher mixes accusation, plaint and humblebrag.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

“What seemed to be political fanaticism,” he writes there, “was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

In the silence that follows that line, you can almost hear the eternal maternal follow-up plaint: “But what has he done for me?”

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2021

“Goodman Whittlesley, will you repeat your com. plaint for this assembly?”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare