How to Use balladry in a Sentence

balladry

noun
  • Our balladry is one of our strongest suits.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • His repertoire is a stylish mix of dance-pop and romantic balladry.
    — Chrissie Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • That’s because the musical path D’Angelo was headed on was light-years away from bawdy lover-boy balladry.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Yanya’s lyrics are intimate and introspective, while her style combines lounge-jazz balladry with astringent alt-rock.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 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
  • The less uptempo tracks sport a continuation of her penchant for acoustic balladry.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Summer Walker is a master of confrontational balladry.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Suddenly, Latin balladry began to fill with sophisticated flourishes of baroque pop.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Even her trademark goofiness, which has been so endearing to even those who aren’t fond of her dramatic adult contemporary balladry, is turned down to a whisper or presented via a few vintage clips.
    — Rich Juzwiak, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • Like Hamilton, much of His Story is rapped while also featuring musical-theater balladry.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rodrigo cites the White Stripes’ Jack White as one of her biggest inspirations, and her music is a canny fusion of piano balladry and retro pop-punk, layered with flavors of grunge and emo.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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