The wisest speech departed from the prevailing story line.
Similar policies will produce different market reactions depending on the prevailing story, or fad of the moment.
The Romney campaign, after promising a major policy address, failed to unveil much new policy, and the prevailing story line became Mr. Romney's inability to fill the cavernous football stadium).
It raises questions about his commitment to fiscal restraint, Mr. Lehane said, and also "plays into a prevailing story line about lack of discipline and being reckless, which has been a consistent part of his political and public life".
"The prevailing story is that this is the best of all possible worlds — cheap food, widely available.
The prevailing story about New Democrat leader John Horgan is that nobody knows who he is.
In recent years, a steady trickle of insider accounts of the Taliban have attempted to retrace this history, and by doing so challenge the prevailing story of the movement's origins.
The prevailing Empire stories celebrate the individualism, violence and greed that express the pathologies of our collective human immaturity, while denying the potentials for community, love, and nurturing service that define our more mature human nature.
The prevailing American story line right now is seething anger at politicians: that they're corrupt, or heartless, or socialist, or dumb.
