Sentence examples for by a string section from inspiring English sources

Onstage the Johnsons perform Mr. Hegarty's agreeably lush, intimate and often melancholy piano-based songs, accompanied by a string section.

Whether Cave has required robust rock songs or delicately arranged cabaret undergirded by a string section, the Bad Seeds have proved capable.

Pearson is joined, for the first time, by a string section – "It was advertised as a quartet but we could only afford three" – for Woman When I've Raised Hell, and the mournful cello and violins enhance his hateful self-pity.

Both jaunty and majestic, abetted by a string section and a full band including Moby and Tony Visconti on guitars, the performance clearly tickled this rock regal, who beamed when several monks emerged with cymbals to clang out the closing.

Over minor chords backed by a string section, a guest vocal by the Swedish pop singer Lykke Li warns, "Somebody stepped inside your soul," and Bono follows up, "You think it's easier to put your finger on the trouble/When the trouble is you". It's a dark postscript, a reminder that growing up doesn't resolve youth's contradictions; it brings sorrows of its own.

On "Paganini: After a Dream," Ms. Carter plays warmly burnished versions of such classical staples as Fauré's "Après un rêve" and "Pavane," Debussy's "Rêverie" and Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte" (with Luiz Bonfá's "Manha de Carnaval" and Astor Piazzolla's "Oblivion" to add a touch of equatorial spice), accompanied by a string section.

Though the advent of rock and roll temporarily diluted his popularity, he incorporated the smooth country-pop Nashville Sound by using a string section as his backup, and during the 1960s he regained prominence with such songs as "What's He Doing in My World" (1965), "Somebody like Me" (1966), and "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" (1968).

But Kings of Leon limit themselves by bringing in a string section, which comes on more as an unnecessary formality than a sparking or driving agent.

The song features a string section by Stockholm Session Strings as well as spoken passages by Simpson and a midsection breakdown.

The song is a cover version of the original by The Ronettes, and contained a string section arrangement that Leigh deemed "gooey" and that it "sounded right out of Redbone's 'Come and Get Your Love.'" He also confessed that the song "almost made [him] embarrassed".

A string section, arranged by noted wunderkind Owen Pallett, adds velvety gravitas.