Sentence examples for ballad usually from inspiring English sources

This is where the Western ballad usually begins.

For "The Island," a Brazilian ballad usually sung by a woman, he became a besotted, polymorphous, perverse lover swooning in a woman's arms.

Broadcast throughout the Tri-State area, the Señor Bolero show is the only radio program in the city dedicated exclusively to the bolero, a melancholy ballad usually expressing a lover's complaint.

The Portuguese fado style, featuring mournful ballads usually sung by women, is also popular.

If you want a hit, it may be best to stay away from writing ballads – ever since the 40s, the average tempo of chart entrants has hovered between 117bpm and 122bpm (ballads usually play at around 90bpm).

Beginning in 1999, Monster Ballads, a series of compilation albums that feature popular power ballads, usually from the glam metal genre, capitalized on the nostalgia, with the first volume going platinum.

Written in traditional rhyming ballad stanzas (usually in the form abcb), Manger's poems convey shrewd humour while affirming a link to both Hebrew scripture and Old Yiddish writing.

The ballad is usually a third-person narrative, and it can run on forever – it was designed to have verses added – while its later development, the dramatic monologue, throws the reader into a highly charged first-person narrative, closer to the urgencies of the stage than the shaggy dog of a story.

The songs are character sketches -- lost and abused children, mourners, lovers who never quite connected -- set to steady-chugging rock or ballads that usually have something askew: dissonant chords, a fuzz-toned guitar or the insistent plink of a marimba.

Bands often make ballads and usually wear bright colored makeup, spandex, skin-tight clothes and black leather and have long, big hair with a lot of sprays or sometimes curls on it.

She introduced "That's All" with a dedication to her "adorable genius child," then sang a light, skipping version of a ballad that is usually treated as a heavy-duty vow of romantic commitment.