In the early 1960s, the London Modernists, or Mods, were overriding fashion designers and dictating the current styles and fashion trends.
One single overriding trend emerges from this analysis.
Unlike the concert world, the producers and directors of movies have had no preconceived limits on what constitutes an overriding and appropriate style for their medium and thus the legacy of music composed for films runs a wide gamut of complexity and design.
The essay miscellany, held together not by any overriding theme but by sheer authorial style and personality, was formerly one of the glories of belletristic nonfiction, though it has become rare for publishers today to take the commercial risk of putting out such a collection.
Game plans are tailored to suit the strengths of the individuals on a team, but the overall idea of how the game should be played — in New Zealand's case, a high-tempo, attacking 15-man style of rugby — is the overriding theme.
And style rather than choreography is the overriding impression left by the company's current program at the Joyce Theater.
The distinguished historian delivers a robust smorgasbord of essays, reviews, lectures, celebrity profiles, travelogues and more, held together not by any overriding theme but by a richly analytical authorial style.
Whether seeking to invent a new style or to keep an old one alive, the overriding mission of these companies is to gain bigger audiences, not easy in a city as culturally competitive as New York.
In the end, though, "Reign" is kept from being a true camp classic by the strong house style of CW, whose young-adult soap operas have an overriding strain of melancholy (catnip to angsty 18- to 34-year-olds).
But the overriding impression again, as with the recording, was how square the Western Classical style as a whole sounds in relation to the real (if sometimes Westernized) Turkish music, free and sinuous.
