The phrase "a broad feeling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a general or widespread emotion or sentiment about a particular topic or situation.
Example: "There is a broad feeling among the community that change is necessary for progress."
Alternatives: "a general sentiment" or "a widespread emotion".
He has a spry and spindly line, a broad feeling for human misery and folly, and a charmingly cruel sense of humor.
In this sense, the agreement reached today reflected a broad feeling that the man who governed Germany for 16 years until 1998, and united the country as well, should not be prosecuted.
(By contrast, the last two deans of the London Business School have been Americans)."There was a broad feeling on the faculty and board that the school might wish to have an outsider," said Cees van Lede, chairman of the INSEAD board, in an interview with Forbes magazine.
While it is the Turkish treasury and the central bank that have the last say on this topic, Mr. Akgiray's view echoes a broad feeling here that the lira's rise is a just reward for the recent dynamism of Turkey's economy.
There is a broad feeling among Indonesian elites that while some of their more authoritarian neighbors, like Malaysia or Pakistan, have suddenly become the new darlings of Washington as a result of the war on terrorism, Indonesia is being orphaned because it is a messy, but real, democracy.
[Page B6.] Much was lost or damaged in the sudden swirl of dust and screams: three lives, an urban evening's sense of calm, and a broad feeling of optimism for a block that had climbed back from years of edgy unease to become a street of restored elegance and real community.
Last Winter is a classic of dejected electronica where love is a subset of a broader feeling of estrangement.
The anxieties are being translated into a broader feeling from voters: a call for change not only in Washington but also in state capitals.
Not designed for people like us: It was a comment about education, but it reflects a broader feeling that so many people today share, that the system just isn't working for them.
But such claims resonate because they play to a broader feeling that Labour traditionally a party of the urban working class has ignored the countryside.In this section Green and unrepresented land The prim and the lush Clean bowlered Belfast: the film set The best-laid plans Reprints Related items Agriculture: Life on the landAug 9th 2007The prosecution's case is a powerful one.
Many Kenyans have been disappointed that Mr. Obama has yet to visit as president, part of a broader feeling on the continent that Africa has not been a priority, certainly not compared with the unfolding nuclear debate in Iran and the civil war in Syria.
