balladry

Example Sentences

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His mother and father encourage him to see the beauty and balladry in everyday life, and with earnest, wide-eyed awe, Jupe quickly runs circles around costars twice his age.

From Salon

Bluegrass is a significant influence on the rural Virginia musician, whose distinctive vocal style seems to owe more to ethereal Appalachian balladry than to the muddier sounds of the Mississippi Delta.

From Washington Post

Remarkably versatile, Cole effortlessly connected genres including jazz balladry, piano-driven instrumental jazz, Latin-language songs and mainstream pop.

From Los Angeles Times

Bareilles’ music, which favors piano-based balladry — and forms the soundtrack of the Apple TV+ series “Little Voice,” which she co-created — is nothing like the Spice Girls’ music but she would have been starting high school around the time “Wannabe” hit, and it must be rattling around inside her somewhere.

From Los Angeles Times

While his father was so spotless and efficient in this work that he verged on the clinical, Daniele Pollini makes some of chordal work sound dreamy, as though this were familiar balladry being played in a nightclub.

From New York Times