The phrase "a collective expression of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a shared sentiment, opinion, or feeling among a group of people.
Example: "The protest was a collective expression of the community's frustration with the local government."
Alternatives: "a shared sentiment of" or "a unified statement of".
In many ways it's a collective expression of what we as a nation value.
For this reason, squeamishness about swearing in the US is perceived by some as a collective expression of social unease.
"And for the late Senator Levy who gave us his name, it's been a collective expression of thanks for all he did for so many in the community and on Long Island".
In the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, edge.org is "open-minded, free-ranging, intellectually playful… an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world… an ongoing and thrilling colloquium".
Another variant could be a requirement in respect of proposed ground-breaking findings of violations for the court first to consult the other Council of Europe institutions and for the court to take a collective expression of opinion into account".
They are not distinguished by variety of style or mode of utterance, and so they seem almost like a chorus, a collective expression of the quest for meaning and identity in a bleak and chaotic, morally trackless world.
There was a huge collective expression of relief among military commanders – and in the Ministry of Defence – over today's supreme court ruling that the Human Rights Act does not protect British troops on the battlefield.
Fall 2017's The Monument studio, led by visiting critics Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, aims to design a contemporary version of a monument during a time when the collective expression of the public sphere or, more politically speaking, the value of democracy has been called into question.
All of these examples, some more whimsical than others, seem like the flippant gestures of the phenomenally wealthy, rather than the collective expression of a people under threat.
Together, these observations point to a general mechanism of cell-surface plg binding in which total binding is determined by the collective expression of a spectrum of heterogeneous receptors and proteolytic activity.
Performance by a cast in a motion picture should be exactly that — the collective expression of artists coalescing to create something enduring.
