Sentence examples for prevailing tone from inspiring English sources

An egregiously unreliable narrator, Steven sets the prevailing tone.

The default for Wallace would have been irony — the prevailing tone of his generation.

This has a certain charm, but makes the prevailing tone hard to gauge.

The prevailing tone is a sardonic, noirish Arbusian humor, with melodramatic pronouncements set against often outlandish period images.

Riley's prevailing tone echoes that of a highbrow tourist bible from an earlier era - a Baedeker or a Blue Guide.

He thinks of fiction as a "form of social opposition", but his prevailing tone is sociable, ironic, forgiving.

Because the unmyelinated sympathetic nerves are slowly conducting compared with the myelinated vagal fibres to the sinus node, the 'immediate' TO response resulting from the fall in blood pressure as a consequence of the PVC therefore depends, in any individual subject, on the prevailing vagal tone before that beat.

Sunlight and prevailing atmospheric tones contribute to this feeling when Mr. Chihuly's cobalt blue glass reeds come into view.

He was more emblematic of what the prevailing pop-cultural tone was, as far as young people were concerned".

Not till the passage of the Education Act of 1814 did the poorer ones have access to any suitable reading matter, and this, obedient to the prevailing European fashion, was dour in tone.

Shakespear has set himself to imitate the tone of polite conversation then prevailing among the fair, the witty, and the learned".