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

Like flexing previously unused muscles, this leads to odd moments of strain, which is not to say that Stoppard's satiric eye and �lan vital do not make for a prevailingly entertaining evening.

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