Sentence examples for chanson about from inspiring English sources
She sets a distinctive Gallic tone with her Piaf-echoing "Chanson" about a village on the brink of change.
Thomas Pigor, a cabaret performer who does a popular chanson about the Führer's aftershave, maintains that the only way to still get any comic mileage out of the Hitler impressions these days is to explore the gap between cardboard cut-out madman and the private human being.
The music slaloms between genres – hard rock, big ballads with a hint of the declamatory vocals of chanson about them, unreconstructed 50s rock'n'roll, 70s stuff decorated with proggy keyboard arpeggios – which tells you something about the sheer length of his career.
His chansons (about 60 have survived) were admired particularly for their melodic beauty, rhythmic complexity, harmonic colour, and clarity of structure.
This 1930s classic, now recorded in 37 languages, is one of those inimitable chansons about love and kissing that made French singers – from Charles Trenet to Georges Brassens to Serge Gainsbourg – famous the world over.
He read Chanson d'Aventure, about his journey in an ambulance after his stroke.
The chanson travelled to Italy about 1525, became known as canzona, and was transcribed for organ.
Brassens had a song about bread, "Chanson Pour L'Auvergnat": This song is yours You, my host, who without hesitating gave me four pieces of bread when in my life there was hunger.
Brassens had a song about bread, "Chanson Pour L'Auvergnat": This song is yours You, my host, who without hesitating gave me four pieces of bread when in my life there was hunger..
In "Chanson Douce," in the passage about parks in winter, Slimani writes, "In strollers, babies held tight under straps contemplate their elder siblings.
Like Jenny Offill, Slimani can write ravishingly of female bodies, even postpartum ones ("her belly of folds and waves, where they built their house, where so many worries and joys flowered"), but "Chanson Douce" is not so much about motherhood as it is about what the cultural theorist Angela McRobbie has called the "neoliberal intensification of mothering".
