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Example sentences for: ballad

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When the film shifts to hell, the muscle-bound Satan does a soulful, Meat Loaf-style schlock-rock ballad on his longing for a better world--in this case embodied by a ship of half-naked sailor types lolling about a pool.
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.
The migratory quality of lyrics--the fact that lines and whole verses traveled from this song to that one, from blues to mountain ballad or vice versa, regardless of origin or even sense--made for a sort of native Surrealism, a collage by accretion.
In a perfectly constructed ballad of the depressed mid-thirties he captures the mood of our own impoverished times and offers his punning remedy to gloom:
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."