Sentence examples for of ballad from inspiring English sources

"Dangerously in Love" is the kind of ballad no one should ever have to sing.

In his verse Chesterton was a master of ballad forms, as shown in the stirring "Lepanto" (1911).

Still others were listening to a recording of "Ballad for Americans," by Paul Robeson: "Am I an American?

Using crackly transfers from his own collection, Smith pulled together every kind of ballad, work song, parlor tune, and Cajun chanson.

She knows how to tell a story in a handful of ballad or country-rock verses; her plaintive voice carries concise tales of memory and disillusionment.

Not only did I sing along with every song, I drove my roommates crazy with my own guitar-strummed rendition of "Ballad of Spider John".

It is a crowded, noisy place, busy with the competing sounds of ballad-singers, dustmen, knife-grinders, peddlers and bell-ringers.

For all the echoes of Oh, What a Lovely War! in the use of ballad-song to counterpoint military devastation, the show never acquires the emotional resonance of Joan Littlewood's great prototype.

The earliest literary imitations of ballads were modeled on broadsides rather than on folk ballads.

I'll have to write a lot of ballads now, very slow ballads, very slow songs.

The neighbouring Balochi poetry consists largely of ballads and religious folk songs.