Example sentences for: blues

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  • Depressed mothers have been found to display negative behaviors towards their infants, which have been shown to adversely affect the child during infancy and in later childhood [ 2 3 ] . A more minor and transient condition known as postpartum blues has a much higher incidence, affecting 50% to 80% of new mothers [ 4 ] . Its symptoms, which include weeping, sadness, irritability, anxiety, and confusion, often resolve by the second week of delivery [ 5 ] , but can still have a negative impact on postpartum mothers in the precarious days following birth.

  • Blues Brothers 2000

  • Insight Guide describes its past incarnations-as a center for Eastern European peddlers in the 1880s, a Southern-style farmer's market in the 1930s, and a place to watch busking blues musicians in the 1940s and 50s-but says it's now just a place to buy fake Rolex watches.

  • In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.

  • "I would say the Moody Blues and the London Symphony Orchestra.


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