prevailingly
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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
The prevailingly positive public mood was reflected in Congress, where the critical outbursts that erupted two weeks ago were more muted last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although the relations of man to the insect world are prevailingly those of hostility, there are a few of these multitudinous creatures which have been more or less completely adopted into his great society.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
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