Sentence examples for for the ballads from inspiring English sources

One of his microphone stands was festooned with red, white and blue brassieres, though he switched to one draped with the American flag for the ballads.

As for the ballads, under Ms. Sloane's tender care Lee Wing's "An Older Man Is Like an Elegant Wine, Alan Broadbent and Dave Frishbergg's "Heart's Desire" (a rare Frishberg lyric not soured by caustic wit) and Bart Howard's wildly romantic "I'll Be Easy to Find" emerge as neglected classics.

"You're waiting for the ballads, aren't you?" Midler joked throughout the show.

The Beatles and Elvis are two great places to start, though modern music is good, too -- just aim for the ballads; they're usually the easiest to understand.

In addition to being a classic weepy, the film is perhaps best known for the ballad "Wind Beneath My Wings," a hit for Ms. Midler.

Mr. Rushdie was chosen for "Shalimar the Clown"; Mr. Hornby for "A Long Way Down"; Ms. Smith for "The Accidental" and Mr. Wilson for "The Ballad of Lee Cotton".

For the ballad "Tu Eres La Musica Que Tengo Que Cantar," Mr. Gómez strapped on an acoustic guitar, briefly becoming a sensitive nueva-trova singer.

Fame came more readily in Europe, where he was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival five times and won twice (for "The Ballad of Narayama" in 1983 and "The Eel" in 1997).

Its hosting of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová performing Falling Slowly well before they won an Oscar for the ballad (heard in the indie hit "Once") is typical of Moffom's forward thinking.

He used to cry at the end of "The Golden Vanity," when the boy who has managed to sink an enemy ship is left to drown in the ocean by a double-crossing captain, so his dad would improvise additional stanzas for the ballad in which the boy was rescued by a benevolent sea turtle and deposited safely on an island.

His films, focusing on gritty social issues, have often found a warmer reception in Europe than in the US - he won the Cannes film festival Palme d'Or twice: for The Ballad of Narayama in 1983 and The Eel in 1997, becoming only the fourth director to do so after Francis Ford Coppola, Bille August and Emir Kusturica.