Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of ballads.
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- adjective music Characteristic of a
ballad
Etymologies
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Examples
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To what purpose does Wordsworth turn an initially hesitant chivalry in his 1798 Advertisement, which edges on a courage-less use of anonymity to assert a kind of balladic verisimilitude, into full fledged medievalism by the 1802 edition?
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The balladic framework can be heavy-handed at times, but it adds a mythical quality to what could have been run-of-the-mill space fantasy.
January 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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But her gift for animating metaphor with sudden drama very much the Coleridgian tactic shines through these few balladic stanzas whose desolating last line curls and repeats with a wave-like inevitability.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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In slow tempos and balladic passages, it lends a sense of yearning; up-tempo, it suggests urgency.
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From it's fairly strong opening, M83's latest slides into balladic yawn-inducing synth washes and over-long ambient bliss-outs.
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The self-conscious balladic simplicity of the Mask, including its adoption of the popular-print and pamphlet idioms, is further evidence of his attempt to "throw his voice" into the fray from a position outside it.
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I agree with the things you said ... some songs are a little drawn out; I end up skipping through those sometimes, but balladic songs are stronger.
Blonde On Blonde 1966
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The more balladic love songs are getting better. âI Want Youâ and â4th Time Aroundâ are better than âShe Belongs To Meâ or âLove Minus Zeroâ. âJust Like A Womanâ is just okay.
Blonde On Blonde 1966
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The more balladic love songs are getting better. âI Want Youâ and â4th Time Aroundâ are better than âShe Belongs To Meâ or âLove Minus Zeroâ. âJust Like A Womanâ is just okay.
Blonde On Blonde 1966
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Yes; there were in New York and Brooklyn some fine non-technical singing performances, concerts, such as the Hutchinson band, three brothers, and the sister, the red-cheek'd New England carnation, sweet Abby; sometimes plaintive and balladic -- sometimes anti-slavery, anti-calomel, and comic.
Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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