Sentence examples for prevailing taste from inspiring English sources

All traces of color -- once covered with a wash or otherwise scrubbed out to accord with prevailing taste -- are now noted.

This time they softened their style to suit prevailing taste and found a sympathetic writer in Pierre Marivaux, who developed a more refined expression of the commedia dell'arte spirit.

Industrious, and conscientious to a sometimes crippling degree (he supported his mother and two of his sisters, with whom he also lived, off and on), Wilder worked within the margins of literature's prevailing taste.

Some of the work on display is variable and a few pieces seem dated, but the collection reflects Mr Bilotti's enthusiasms rather than the prevailing taste in contemporary art.

It filled a long-felt need for good tableware that the middle class could afford, and it fixed for two centuries the prevailing taste for variants of cream-coloured domestic ware.

But for all we might want to see the architect as a romantic hero - for all architects might want to see themselves as such - the truth is that most architecture is shaped by the prevailing taste of an age.

Katz's work gained critical acclaim late in his career, when prevailing tastes came to appreciate the power of the sabulous simplicity that characterized much of his work.

Collaborating with several design firms, the architects delivered an elegant mix of styles that reflected the prevailing tastes of the day.

As such, it is out of step with prevailing tastes, which tend to favour reds that are riper, rounder and more fruit-focused.

The English poets, among them Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, failed in their attempts to create a drama that suited prevailing tastes, partly because they were not prepared to descend to a level that they considered vulgar and partly because they were overshadowed by the weight of England's dramatic heritage, having very little to add to it.

He recalls: Despite the prevailing tastes of the New Wave period, it is not traditional film stills — the ones my colleagues and I were paid to produce — that have written the history of cinema, but the "non-film" photos, those that show the methods and characters of the directors and the hidden face of cinema.