"prevalent tone" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the overall mood or attitude conveyed in a sentence or piece of writing. Example: The author's use of dark imagery and foreboding language created a prevalent tone of unease throughout the novel.
Campbell insisted on the same rational approach to fantasy that he required of his science fiction writers, and in the words of Clareson, this led to the destruction of "not only the prevalent narrative tone but also most of the trappings that had dominated fantasy from The Castle of Otranto and The Monk through the nineteenth century to Weird Tales".
Weitz envisioned a warm color palette for the sequel, contrary to the first film in the series, whose blue tones were prevalent.
Here we notice the emphasis on "mentorship," a different tone than the prevalent attitude towards the masters (professors) in the rest of the academy, the overarching guild that accommodates the writing guild.
"We were watching old interviews with him while we were writing the song and the stuff he was talking about is still very prevalent in society," Paris says, her tone now less upbeat.
Showgirls takes the organic violence that comes with womanhood, and turns it into a spastic tone poem on the narratives prevalent violence shapes.
An orange tone, the colour of Lucozade, is very prevalent, as is yellow.
The agency's ads had a clever tone, unlike the bombast, sentimentality and hyperbole prevalent on Madison Avenue at the time.
Our findings on iCALL reveal that lexical tone errors are over six times more prevalent than phonetic errors, French speakers are twice as likely to mispronounce Tone 2, 3, 4 when compared to English speakers, native Romance language speakers are more likely to make de-aspiration and aspiration mistakes, and fluency scores correlate inversely with tone and phone error rate.
Yet that same tone of vindictiveness and abuse is as prevalent in news rooms and shop floors and board rooms as it is to the governor's office.
