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Example sentences for: ballad

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"President Lonely" (a ballad)
If Peckinpah had made this movie it might have had some of the ingratiating rowdiness of his The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) or Junior Bonner (1972).
Satan's big number, a malicious piece of parody that's one of the funniest movie moments of the year, is a power ballad for a Broadway crowd--imagine an Andrew Lloyd Webber number written for Meat Loaf or, worse, Michael Bolton.
It was in this work that Paredes proposed his theory of the production of Chicano folklore, and especially the border ballad, as a result of a process of border conflict generated by the invasion of Anglo culture and values into the Texas region in the early nineteenth century.
But the Independent noted "a whiff of rebellion" in the spontaneous singing by the entire parliament of Robert Burns' anti-royal ballad "A man's a man for a' that," which favorably compares the ordinary man with "Yon birkie ca'd 'a lord' /Wha struts an stares, an a' that."