Sentence examples for a prevailing sense from inspiring English sources

Indeed, across this part of Europe, there is a prevailing sense of victimhood.

What never changed was a prevailing sense of discipline, both mental and physical.

Now he follows it with The City, which deals with a prevailing sense of urban angst.

We live in troubled times with toxic politics and a prevailing sense that nothing can get done.

The central activity of my days and nights was dealing with a prevailing sense of anxiety, anguish, distress.

There's a prevailing sense that writing should be something "done on the side", in one's "spare time".

The finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, also told reporters on Sunday that "Israel cannot accept in the long run a Hamas and Islamic Jihad regime in Gaza, and sooner or later, and I don't want to quote dates, we will have to do a 'root canal.' " But the prevailing sense in Israel is that now is not the time.

The Russian representative, Sergey Lavrov, who had held up the vote for 24 hours while fine points in the wording of the resolution were discussed, reflected the prevailing sense of caution in a speech today.

And never was there a "prevailing common sense" that was more in need of critique.

As Horn writes in "Uncovering the Un-Word," a paper in the journal Sophia Linguistica: "The prevailing sense is that for something to unhappen, the tape of reality must be set to Rewind.

Acting is an impossibly illusive trade to ply, but the prevailing sense I have when I go to work is one of joy.