"prevailing character" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the dominant or most prominent characteristic or quality of a person, place, or thing. Example: The prevailing character of the small town was one of tight-knit community and strong values.
Lots of people have paper and a pencil, but few of the people who've ever used them have managed to capture with such subtlety and precision — visual and emotional — the transient expressions on a face and the prevailing character from which they flicker up.
Different parts are categorized according to their prevailing character: a) scarp; b) hanging blocks in an unstable position; c) zone of depletion; d) stable part probably without any movement; e) and f) transport area; g) accumulation zone; h) stable part probably without any movement; i) detached rock block; j), k) and l) accumulation zones.
culture, and are not so used to the rapid-response alertness which has to be a prevailing character of this sort of activity.
Due to the prevailing national character of implementation resulting in their overall global inefficiency, environmental preservation regimes were rated neutral with respect to both cooperation and coordination.
"All horror characters go against prevailing mores, but part of Coffin Joe's appeal is that he actively sets out to attack and dismember mainstream societal and religious values," Mr. Gingold said.
However, we argue that these actors have been allowed or even encouraged to take advantage of these incentives by national policy-makers thanks to: (1) the lack of clarity or the poor adequacy of the policies designed at the central level, and (2) the blurred character of prevailing national discourses promoting afforestation and community-based forest management.
The definition of genius loci is the prevailing atmosphere, spirit or character of a place.
Does it represent the splash of humanity prevailing inside a seemingly diabolical character?
Martin F. Norden, author of The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies, describes the plot as following the prevailing industry standards of disabled characters, where the figure "nobly" withdraws from the relationship after plotting revenge and then saving his beloved.
And though nuns run the hospice, the prevailing deity is cinema: movies provide the characters with role models and fantasy lives.
The play's group of dysfunctional characters, utterly alien to the prevailing middle-class "anyone for tennis?" school of theatre, each explored their chances of attaining a glimpse of happiness.
