Sentence examples for chief mode from inspiring English sources

It did not immediately displace oral tradition as the chief mode of communication.

Road transport carries more freight than the railways; buses remain the chief mode of travel between towns and villages.

Along with policy talk and opinion pronouncement, these are his chief mode of discourse, his conversational carapace.

It's interesting to watch a comic whose chief mode is lordly cruelty cop so abjectly to his provincialism.

Back then, I came with my friend Anna, and our chief mode of transport was hitch-hiking lifts on the back of boys' motorbikes.

As composers gradually departed from repetitive forms, cyclic construction became a chief mode of achieving unity over a large time span and greatly enlarged harmonic vocabulary.

Lament and protest are Mr. Kurtag's chief modes; the humor is black; and serenity is likely to be presented as remote or evanescent.

Vargas Llosa has two chief modes of writing: serious politico-historical novels like "The Feast of the Goat" and "The War of the End of the World" and sensual picaresques like "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" and "The Bad Girl".

In 1996, the historian and critic Donald Kuspit identified two chief modes of art writing --metaphysical and journalistic -- accurately describing the ways they have contributed to different forms of malaise within criticism at large.

"I, Jean"—her chief rhetorical mode is emphasis reminds us frequently of her I.Q.

"I, Jean" — her chief rhetorical mode is emphasis — reminds us frequently of her I.Q.