Sentence examples for mainly popular from inspiring English sources

Yi Shu (Ni Yishu) wrote mainly popular romances that catered to a mostly female audience.

And the company's programming has evolved from mainly popular fare like "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder to riskier productions.

He won an Oscar for Kwai, although the music was mainly popular for his adaptation of Kenneth Alford's Colonel Bogey march.

Rossini is among the more popular opera composers -- but he's mainly popular, in this country, for "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," which is probably performed more than his other operas combined.

The beverage was mainly popular in Russia, Poland, and the Balkan states until soon after World War II, when consumption began to increase rapidly in the United States and then in Europe.

And during the period she focuses on, 1880 to 1950, the poets she writes about — mainly popular poets like Longfellow, Whittier and Emerson, and later on such figures as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edwin Markham and Edgar Guest — saw their role not only as seer and sage, but as intimate guide and friend.

I'm always reluctant to dismiss destinations said to be spoiled by tourism -- mainly because popular destinations are usually at the other end of frequent, and cheap, airline connections.

But the scenes on the ship throughout Wednesday, along with the behavior of the Iranian Navy, suggested that the threats were mainly for popular consumption, not as a marker of imminent confrontation.

She is still the bestselling novelist of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare – but to refer to her always, or mainly, as popular and bestselling runs the risk of overlooking the fact that she was a literary writer in the truest sense.

There's no co-ordination with the government, which is mainly repairing popular tourist regions".

Putting aside the already noted distinction between emotion and (music) mood, we note that we considered mainly western popular music and used song-based annotations.