Examples of torch song in a Sentence
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By gracefully expressing Evan’s longing for Zoe and unpacking her fractured relationship with Connor, the torch song fuses these characters’ parallel quests for connection.
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
A lot of your songs do feel like classic torch songs — but then, a lot of Taylor Swift songs are torch songs, really.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Dec. 2023
For many, in other words, a torch song written from the POV of an underappreciated grown-man doll has become the unlikely anthem of the summer.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
In the ensuing decades, O’Connor continued to produce albums, calling on many different styles, including punk, rap, rasta, hip-hop, torch songs, Tin Pan Alley standards, and Disney showtunes.
—Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
Making her Newport debut on the main-stage Saturday, Ponder showed all the ways that her bet on herself has paid off, running through the textured torch songs that comprise her 2022 debut, Some Of Us Are Brave.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch song is an understated treasure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
With Barker’s thunderous drums on its anthemic chorus, the pleading torch song transforms into a punch-in-the-gut power ballad that’s now been viewed nearly 800,000 times on YouTube and over 3 million times on his Instagram.
—Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
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
Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
A lot of your songs do feel like classic torch songs — but then, a lot of Taylor Swift songs are torch songs, really.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Dec. 2023
For many, in other words, a torch song written from the POV of an underappreciated grown-man doll has become the unlikely anthem of the summer.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
In the ensuing decades, O’Connor continued to produce albums, calling on many different styles, including punk, rap, rasta, hip-hop, torch songs, Tin Pan Alley standards, and Disney showtunes.
—Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
Making her Newport debut on the main-stage Saturday, Ponder showed all the ways that her bet on herself has paid off, running through the textured torch songs that comprise her 2022 debut, Some Of Us Are Brave.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch song is an understated treasure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
With Barker’s thunderous drums on its anthemic chorus, the pleading torch song transforms into a punch-in-the-gut power ballad that’s now been viewed nearly 800,000 times on YouTube and over 3 million times on his Instagram.
—Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
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
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“Torch song.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/torch%20song. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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