Ballads

Word BALLADS
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What do we mean by ballads?

A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

A slow romantic song.

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The word "ballads" in example sentences

Medieval literature, for instance, including the popular ballads, is full of an almost Georgian enthusiasm for Nature, and the art of agricultural peoples such as the Chinese and Japanese centres always round trees, birds, flowers, rivers, mountains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before writing about a Russo-centric novel or memoir, I plunge into my playlist, “Dusha” Russian Soul, which contains a dizzying mixture of sonorous ballads from the Slavic past and pop songs from the post-Soviet present. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gilbert and Sullivan has many examples, but also, as Steve mentions, this happens in ballads — (such as, well, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”) ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hamza specializes in ballads, and his diction may be the best I've heard from a male singer since Sinatra. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Two ballads from the show have had a life outside it, "I Like Him" and "She Touched Me" (usually heard as "He Touched Me"), but I also like "Deep in Your Heart," which is a good example of the way a seemingly generic pop song can have its own function within a show. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2004)

A great number of manuscripts contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Certain Danish ballads exhibit this peculiarity, but I cannot find any Danish counterpart to the ballad in Prior's three volumes. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her history had never got beyond Edward the Fourth on account of having to go back to 1066 on account of new girls, and she had only heard of Prince Charlie in ballads and story books. ❋ Edith (1923)

The singing of national ballads is the only pastime. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)

Neither the great King nor the beauty of Bedfordshire, neither the gorgeous paradise of Marli nor Mistress Osborne's favourite walk 'in the common that lay hard by the house, where a great many young wenches used to keep sheep and cows and sit in the shade singing of ballads,' is anything to us. ❋ Unknown (1888)

I wish you would, because one of my ballads is rather touching and I always want to cry when I sing it. ❋ Unknown (1876)

It wouldn’t be so bad if you could just push a button and replace the saccharin ballads of the 1970s with dignified plainsong and Gregorian chant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Especially Karen’s voice in most of her ballads is like the voice of an ANGEL to me that goes straight into my heart, that’s probably why ‘Close To You ‘is still the most played song on weddings all over the world, Great singer & talent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Squire,) -- besides which, there were certain Spanish ballads to which he had taken a great fancy since his late visit to Cuba. ❋ Various (N/A)

Again I think the ballads are my best songs on the album. ❋ Rick Springfield (2010)

After - before making the record, long before that and even after - since then, Stephin and my friend Dudley Klute, who's also on the record, have had endless, I mean, ongoing hour-after-hour sitting in bar and discussions about everything from 1920s Tin Pan Alley, 1890s parlor ballads, which is the first pop music, on up to '60s Psychedelia and French cabaret jazz. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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