How to Use balladry in a Sentence

balladry

noun

• The only problem was, save for a smidge of balladry, much of MTS sounded the same, or felt the same when spliced together.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• His repertoire is a stylish mix of dance-pop and romantic balladry.
  — Chrissie Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• Lee is one of the best-selling singer-songwriters of Brazil, known for her skillful blend of pop balladry, MPB, bossa and new wave.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• But if songcraft like Diane Warren’s is so wrong in an era where that kind of big diva balladry rarely tops charts anymore, who needs being right?
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021
• Though, with a beat as comforting as a warm, fading summer night, Chance the Rapper has perfected the sound of nostalgic, hip-hop balladry.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 7 June 2016
• Unlike the pitch-black balladry that defined Between the Country, Noe was intent on including at least a few halfway-cheerful tunes this time around.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
• There’s a riotous joy to hearing Segarra save themself throughout Life On Earth, an album of synth-rock, folk balladry, and arena-worthy alt-pop.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022
• But most of the time, people have found solace in his tender, bleeding-heart balladry; his last album in 2015 bested even Taylor Swift, who was named after him, on the Billboard chart.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
• There’s a little bit of funky rock & roll, a little bit of breathtaking country balladry, and a lot of Lambert’s restless artistic ambition.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
• But usually, Meat Loaf's full-bore commitment and larger-than-life persona were the only things that could sell Steinman's overwrought balladry.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• Randy Jackson is back on bass for the album only, and the set mixes melodic balladry with extended virtuosic pieces, covering all the bases of Journey’s 47 years of recording.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 5 July 2022
• Yanya’s lyrics are intimate and introspective, while her style combines lounge-jazz balladry with astringent alt-rock.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
• After two albums full of beautiful balladry and giddy experimentation, Kesha needs to drop one more all-out party anthem, that both nods to the day-one fans and brings in younger ones, too.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2022
• The twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Summer Walker is a master of confrontational balladry.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2021
• The Mexican-American singer is breaking through thanks to his innovative blend of Mexican folk balladry with an indie-rock edge.
  — Lucas Villa, SPIN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Getting almost any guitar sound outside of acoustic balladry on pop radio is a tough sell these days, but again, a Harry Styles debut won’t be treated like an ordinary debut.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2017
• Structurally, the songs are bold — mixtures of balladry, hip-hop, country, soul and blues reside, in some cases, within a single song — and are flavored with instruments as diverse as organ, flute and alto sax.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• Preserving the title but spinning an entirely new yarn to flesh out its suggestion of folk balladry, the writer-director’s superbly acted fourth feature is his most Irish work for the screen to date, and also one of his best.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022
• Instead of doubling down on the stately balladry of her breakthrough hits, Daigle explores ‘60s pop, folk, jazz and R&B on the project, creating a fantasia of inspiration powered by her mammoth vocal takes.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 12 May 2023
• Like Hamilton, much of His Story is rapped while also featuring musical-theater balladry.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• In their absence, a specific blend of sensual pop-R&B balladry with atmospheric drum’n’bass beats comes into focus.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2022
• This is not the kind of instrumentation one typically hears in jazz performance, but the delicacy of Lev-Ari’s arrangement echoed the tenderness of Cohen’s balladry.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Mixing gospel harmonies, simmering post-hip-hop instrumentals and wounded balladry, the music shudders with outrage and vision.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• The vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater started releasing albums on major labels in the 1970s, when the boundary stones between jazz, funk, soul and pop balladry were constantly being rearranged.
  — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• Suddenly, Latin balladry began to fill with sophisticated flourishes of baroque pop.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
• But this butterfly also stings like a bee — moving effortlessly across a sonic jet stream that includes future-perfect glitch pop, avant-jazz skronk, reggaeton, flamenco, and soulful balladry.
  — Leah Greenblatt, Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Beloved in critical circles, Case just released her seventh solo album, a tangled mix of contemplative balladry and her own catchy brand of rock that’s girded by unexpected textures and lush arrangements as strong as anything from her career.
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• 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.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Rempis takes a different path on his terrific recent solo album Lattice, engaging in some refreshing and effective balladry.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 12 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024