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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

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

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 Alps, the Andes, and the Himalayas, all of which are world-celebrated for their lofty grandeur, are prevailingly granite.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling