prevailingly

Example Sentences

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Finally, a revelation in the last scene forces the audience to reconsider everything that has come before, in a bleak light that seems at odds with the prevailingly comic tone.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2017

This Requiem is prevailingly gentle and meditative, more Brahmsian than Verdian in mood, but by no means toothless or lacking in drama.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2016

Instead, Andris Nelsons led a performance that was prevailingly muscular.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2011

A weightier reason may be that Climate demands literary rather than dramatic treatment; the story needs style to lace it together, and a prevailingly comic stance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ease with which the native populations of the conquered districts, exclusively or prevailingly Christian, adapted themselves to the new rule is very striking.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various