prevailingly

This is abundantly evident in a chapter that starts with a fatal house fire in Falls City, Neb., in which a prevailingly nonheroic young man attempts an act of heroism.

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.

Subtitled “Tragic” by Mahler at his last performance of the symphony, it is prevailingly dark, and often gritty and abrasive.

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

But no, the minor mode is basically just a coloristic device in this prevailingly sunny creation.