11.   The romantic ballads of Carl Michael Bellman and C.E.F. Weyse are especially rewarding.

12.   They were romantic ballads, with melancholy lyrics about love that refused to die in the face of betrayal.

13.   What would a Strait album be without a simmering romantic ballad, or a Dean Dillon hard-luck song?

14.   What distinguishes the love songs of Jobim and his followers from generic British-American romantic ballads is their fluency.

15.   Como often said he far preferred singing romantic ballads to some of the lightweight numbers, but the novelty songs were a frequent audience request.

16.   Even in Latin-dominated Miami, FM stations resist playing rock en Espanol songs amid their diet of salsa, merengue and romantic ballads.

17.   In her latest release, which is being heavily promoted, she does away with the merengue in favor of romantic ballads.

18.   In Perfect Moment, a romantic ballad, she shows that she has reasonably strong vocal ability, turning in quite an emotionally convincing performance.

19.   When the British hanged Tom Williams over half a century ago, they consigned the Irish Republican Army man to romantic ballads and an unmarked grave.