"prevailing image" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means the dominant or most commonly held image or perception of something. Example: The prevailing image of the city was one of grandeur and wealth, with its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets lined with luxury boutiques.
THE prevailing image of Mexican cooking in New York is hard to shake: heavy, fatty dishes laden with thick layers of cheese and swimming in refried beans.
To combat Comintern propaganda, beginning around 1950 Washington mounted a counteroffensive aimed at challenging a prevailing image of the United States as a land whose matchless wealth was matched by a paucity of culture.
THE prevailing image of Mr. Ballmer, 50, is mainly that of a marketing dynamo — a hyperkinetic, booming orator who can fire up the sales staff and industry partners to labor tirelessly on Microsoft's behalf.
The most essential questions are, whose image of future on a societal level prevails and how long-lasting the prevailing image is [9, 17].
But his prevailing image -- accurate, so far as I can determine -- was one of gentle kindness.
But the prevailing image is of Gainsbourg sitting behind her mic, detached and unknowable.
They just reinforce the prevailing images of Afghanistan.
While on the surface Disney princesses may not seem like a big issue, the prevailing images of any culture do influence children's self-perceptions from a surprisingly young age.
On Monday, prevailing images on cable news were not of Senator John Kerry throwing the first pitch at Fenway Park the night before, but those of his wife laying into the editor of a conservative newspaper and telling him to "shove it" before a horde of other journalists.
Small Woodland Animal Opens Off Broadway For most people familiar with ANNA PAQUIN, there are two prevailing images of her: the tiny, startled, speechless, gobsmacked girl who won an Academy Award at the age of 11; and Rogue, teen queen of the summer movies "X-Men" and "X2," the energy vampire with a white stripe streaking her dark hair.
Tony Soprano's conflicted relationships with Jennifer Melfi, his Italian-American psychiatrist, and Bruce Cusamano, the doctor who is his neighbor; the brutal reality of his mother's desires; his nephew Christopher's uneasy association with African-American gangsta rappers -- all capture the struggles within Italian-American culture and subvert its prevailing images.
