Sentence examples for for a ballad from inspiring English sources

When I look for a ballad, I look for a song that says what every man would like to say and every woman would like to hear.

Minutes later, Mr. Feinstein comes out, taking his place at the head of the big band, with interludes at the piano for a ballad.

But her songs have always been closer to folk-rock, whether she was quietly picking an acoustic guitar for a ballad or strumming a Rickenbacker electric guitar.

"I like Offenbach, you do not/So what, so what, so what?" The words were written by no less a master than Cole Porter, for a ballad called "Live and Let Live".

Recently back from touring with CSS and the Gossip, the duo channel the outer edges of OutKast, with stripped-down, hyper- sexual electro-bass and they even find space for a ballad.

Because of certain genetic disadvantages -- a square jaw, muscular build and a gleaming white smile -- Matthew Morrison is doomed to play the sort of romantic leading men who show up for a ballad or two in every Broadway musical and are inevitably upstaged by the more tortured and less attractive star.

Then comes the reprise of the musical's spiritual center of a ballad, "Waitin' for the Light to Shine," when the sound, so to speak, is switched off.

She was fearsome in the finishing lap of "Big Time Sensuality," slicing through the blare of the band; then she deftly pulled back the reins for "Joga," a ballad that she began unaccompanied, at home in an expectant silence.

For "The Water," a ballad with an almost imperceptible pulse, Feist moved to a piano and played by herself.

Among her best-known songs was "Since I Fell for You (1945), a ballad written by Buddy that was later performed by Mel Tormé and George Shearing, Annie Laurie, Lenny Welch and others.

He rocked in his chair like a penitent, eyes closed, his long hair swinging, as Isbell laid down the guitar and vocals for "Different Day," a ballad on the new record.