How to Use torch song in a Sentence

torch song

noun

• Adele deconstructs the 1989 Cure classic and turns it into a Latin-tinged torch song.
  — Chuck Arnold, Billboard, 4 May 2018
• The title track, written by Rose Cousins as a torch song, is rendered here as a plea for collective ablution.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• On this bleak torch song from Dangerous Woman, Gray plays Grande’s conscience, begging her to walk away from a toxic lover.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
• The baroquest of Bond films; there’s a deep melancholy under all the lavish action, right down to Nancy Sinatra’s bone-chilling torch song.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
• There’s almost always a Disney torch song, a pop star trying to break the mold, and a tune by Diane Warren, who has been nominated 12 times now with no wins so far.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021
• Angel Olsen jumping on the piano and playing a beautiful torch song at Capitol Studios to show what reverb does, too.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2021
• Perhaps more than any other song on her debut, the intimate torch song puts the then-20-year-old newcomer’s vocal prowess on full display.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• Four bars later, Debussy falls back on a stark E-minor chord that has a vaguely medieval quality, as if this torch song of the future were being performed in a cold room in an ancient castle.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch song is an understated treasure.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
• The arrangements vary, from ambient electronica and Appalachian Gothic to contemporary torch song and bluegrass gospel, with scarcely a hint of Cash’s trademark freight-train rhythms.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024