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Finally, a revelation in the last scene forces the audience to reconsider everything that has come before, in a bleak light that seems at odds with the prevailingly comic tone.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Subtitled “Tragic” by Mahler at his last performance of the symphony, it is prevailingly dark, and often gritty and abrasive.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

Instead, Andris Nelsons led a performance that was prevailingly muscular.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2011

Like flexing previously unused muscles, this leads to odd moments of strain, which is not to say that Stoppard's satiric eye and �lan vital do not make for a prevailingly entertaining evening.

From Time Magazine Archive

His comments upon subjects which he discussed, and facts which he presented, were prevailingly fair, and very instructive.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen