Its predominant note is a rather thin elegance of outline, in which the height of the figures is usually somewhat exaggerated.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The development of this morality in the aristocratic class, which was still predominant although the growing importance of the House of Commons was tending to shift the centre of political gravity to a lower point, is, I think, sufficiently intelligible to be taken for granted.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Here the pastoral life and breeding of cattle remained predominant, as in the less productive districts on the west of the Jordan.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker