Sentence examples for a prevailing note from inspiring English sources

Against a grim grey background and a prevailing note of snarling anarchy, surrounded by well-upholstered courtiers, this ragamuffin, spindly prince looked like a changeling and behaved with innocence.

Although the album's musical palette also included hip-hop, Hawaiian folk and techno, the prevailing note was of early-blues-era American primitive.

She noted a prevailing conservative mind-set in which education is the preserve of boys.

The phrase "to Strawberry" for example begins with a somewhat dissonant G melody note against a prevailing F minor key, then uses the semi-tone dissonance B and B notes (the natural and sharpened 11th degrees against the Fm chord) until the consonant F note is reached on "Fields".

She lacked a doctrine, a prevailing call.

Politics remains a prevailing aspect of Albany.

Their enthusiasm reflects a prevailing mood.

A prevailing sloppiness reigns.

But vacancies are a prevailing theme - even in civic buildings.

Maybe it's that producers intuit a prevailing vibe.

The legacy of his beloved father's early death, Price notes, was "a prevailing sense of tenderness that prevented any later interest in sex that had no substantial affectionate component.