Sentence examples for ballad the from inspiring English sources

The event became the subject of a popular ballad, "The Bonnie Earl of Moray".

Lines from a Scottish ballad — "The Golden Vanity" — come into my mind.

The terror is as relentless as the ballad the story springs from.

But Mr. Henderson's greatest strengths were more traditional: the ballad, the uptempo tune, the standard.

A ballad, the song opens with Mr. Svec's ringing electric 12-string guitar.

Joni Mitchell wrote the classic goose ballad, "The Urge for Going" which refers to their inspiring "chevron flight".

"When he had them in his cross hair," John 40 sings in the ballad, "the trigger spoke.

This was then followed by tweets from singer-songwriter Sia about a "beautiful and heartbreaking" ballad the pair had recorded.

Would she describe the song as a power ballad, the sort of quintessentially American song she is famous for?

Near the close of the set Mr. Nimmer actually did include an Ellington ballad, "The Single Petal of a Rose".

Later she sings a syrupy ballad, "The Winner Takes It All," with an operatic intensity that's unsettling.