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  • Many believe Gaga has stolen her thunder and it's tempting to interpret this rather lovely ballad's lyrics as her surrender: "I am done ... she has won, now it's no fun".

    This week's new singles Michael Cragg 2010

  • One of Mr. Evans's own most thoughtful ballads, "Turn Out the Stars," was essayed in an arco solo by Mr. Gomez that contrasted the ballad's soul with a hint of distortion, while Mr. Corea also brought a fair amount of dissonance to an unnamed blues.

    Looking Back, Looking Forward 2010

  • Part of that problem is that it has exactly a ballad's worth of plot, and 456 pages in which to fine that out with Shakespeare jokes and loving descriptions of the way we all secretly wish college life had been, though it wasn't.

    Ahoy the paradigm shift! pameladean 2007

  • This ballad's just for them landlubbers who are such lazy rustbuckets that they let their emotions get in the way of their "better" judgement.

    Fire Chief "Resigns" And Becomes Cartoon Du Jour 2006

  • Talk about everlasting love: By the flammable ballad's five-minute mark, you'll be blown away and utterly exhausted.

    Sacred Love 2003

  • The ballad's opening phrase, "Gone away, gone ahead," was clearly a reference to between times.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • 'Lord Thomas Howard' (6.1), uncle to the queen, escorted her to Scotland in 1503: 'This is ground enough,' says Child, 'for the ballad's making him her chamberlain ten years later.'

    Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

  • His form when compared with the modern ballad's amplitude seems like a Tanagra figurine beside a

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

  • Kilmeny did not have her slate with her and could not answer; but Eric guessed from something in her eyes that she was bitterly contrasting the beauty of the ballad's heroine with her own supposed ugliness.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910

  • Eric guessed from something in her eyes that she was bitterly contrasting the beauty of the ballad's heroine with her own supposed ugliness.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard 1908

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