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Example sentences for: ballad

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The best, "Seasons of Love," [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] affects the same ensemble solidarity as "What I Did for Love" in A Chorus Line . [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]Both can find no better use for the pop ballad than as group therapy--one for those suffering the vicissitudes of life as a chorus gypsy, the other for those "living in the shadow of AIDS."
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, published in 1958 by the University of Texas Press, is not only one of the most important academic works on the history of the Chicano, but it is also respected as major scholarship in the field of folklore studies, and specifically on the genre of the ballad.
If you want the entire history of pop music on one single--the tug between its highest aspirations and its basest instincts--Sinatra wrapped it up in 1951: on the B side, "I'm a Fool to Want You," an almost painfully exposed ballad that today ranks as one of his greatest recordings; but, on the A side ...
You may also hear a man perform the same sort of ballad with a strong, husky voice.
There is a successful pop ballad called “Lady in Red” that worries me every time I hear it because the singer, Mr. de Burgh, has to struggle through three lines ending with the words chance, dance , and romance . As far as I can recall, he pronounces chance with a sharp “a,” and dance with a long “a,” and then he finds himself in the disastrous position of having to pronounce romance with a long “a,” too.