Sentence examples for ballad more from inspiring English sources

And covers can be effective: the Mexican-American singer Frankie J had a hit with Spanish and English versions of Extreme's ballad "More Than Words" in 2005.

Westlife's 1999 cover of the ballad "More Than Words" by Extreme was third while Will Young's cover of The Doors' "Light My Fire", which topped the charts in 2002, came fourth.

And when the veteran actor Ken Jennings, as Arvide Abernathy, delivers grandfatherly advice in the ballad "More I Cannot Wish You," his singing can bring tears to the eyes.

Most of "Worship Soul" uses the language of assurance, but Ms. Wilson — who wrote most of the album's songs, sometimes with the producer Rick Robinson — saves the language of desire for the end of the record, in a slow ballad, "More of You".

Jerry Dammers, the co-founder of the ska band the Specials, wrote the anti-apartheid ballad more than 20 years ago as part of the campaign to release Mr Mandela from jail in South Africa, but his new protest has a more prosaic feel: he has rewritten the work as a special plea to Lambeth council to give the go-ahead to build a secondary school in Brixton.

The remix gives the heart-felt ballad more of a party vibe, elevating the song to a dance floor mainstay with a healthy injection of synth.

Sub-The Voice ballads, more than likely featuring a silly sweeping ball dress and Lady Gaga "ee-aye-ee-aye-oh" vocals.

The trio has become an unlikely musical phenomenon, resurrecting Irish parlor songs and adding luster to ballads more often heard in smoke-choked pubs.

Although she offered her share of gracefully rendered ballads, more often she led her four-piece band into driving folk-rockers, sometimes reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen's sprightlier songs.

With the Jayhawks disbanded, the pair got together to record Ready for the Flood, a gentle album of acoustic ballads, more Simon and Garfunkel than kick-ass country-rock.

But "Bass Place," a ballad of more mysterious provenance, was another story.