Sentence examples for prevailing idiom from inspiring English sources

The world depicted in these books has been criticised latterly for its ingenuous depiction of middle-class family life, but in their time the books were radical in their departure from the rarefied boarding schools and boating adventures that had been part of the prevailing idiom of children's literature.

Sumi Jo's "Only Love" (Erato 8573-80241-2) is altogetherher different exercise, steeped not in nostalgia but in a prevailing pop idiom, the modern musical.

"There's a prevailing racist, provincial attitude on the part of the jazz mainstream to accept Latin jazz as an idiom in its own right," said Nat Chediak, the Miami-based author of a Spanish-language dictionary of Latin jazz and an associate producer of "Calle 54," a documentary tribute to Latin jazz that features Mr. O'Farrill and other artists, released by Miramax Films this year.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

So far, the older generation is prevailing.

They are, for the moment, prevailing.

Take the 5/2 about the Londoners prevailing.

But they play by the prevailing rules.

That's consistent with the prevailing mood.