We have already noted that the prophet's dominant note of doom changes dramatically to one of hope and resurrection with word of the disaster. (religion-online.org)
There is a clear dominant note running through Israel's written witness, whether in narrative, prophecy or psalms, and that is that Israel owed her very origin and her continued existence to a dramatic event in history, in which she was led out of slavery in Egypt to the freedom of a new land flowing with milk and honey. (religion-online.org)
And it is the dominant note of hope that, more than anything else, characterizes the ministry of Fr. (firstthings.com)