Sentence examples for mind the ballads from inspiring English sources
"Ballads imply for lots of people something sad, or a tragic tale," Turner says, bringing to mind the border ballads made famous by Walter Scott, "but these are not like that at all.
Even "Losing My Mind," the killer ballad from "Follies," whose narrator is questioning her mental stability, remained lofty and safely tranquilized.
As far as the new album goes, the merciless bad press on Rebel Heart has been absurd, much of it coming from bloggers who are furious that she's still singing songs about sex and silly pleasures -- never mind the introspective tracks and ballads.
These themes, as he said in a 1957 essay, reveal much about the minds and mores of the "folk" who transmit the ballads.
Ms. Wu's "Rain Song," for example, has roots in traditional Chinese music but also has passages that sound like jazz (thanks to both her gently cooing vocal style and to Mr. Riley's guitar figuration) and a stretch that calls to mind ballads of the Old West (in particular, "Red River Valley").
The ballads are even better.
But the real treasures are the ballads.
The ballads had the most promise.
The ballads in Houston's catalog reveal the most about her, like "I Have Nothing," which is ostensibly a ballad in the way many of her ballads are.
