Tim Cook, Apple's C.E.O., called it "the largest album release of all time," though the record was foisted upon the five hundred million customers of iTunes regardless of their appreciation — it presumed a kind of universal interest in U2, an idea that's equal parts self-congratulatory and insulting.
In "The Proper Book of Sexual Folklore" (1978), Professor Coffin took on a subject of universal interest, ranging over its manifestations in literature and in games like spin the bottle, in which children began to enact adult social roles.
How to protect patients from harm is a question of universal interest.
The disasters attending the return over the barren grounds, on the premature approach of winter, have been told by Franklin himself in a narrative which excited universal interest and commiseration.
As an additional improvement in the manner in which Bentham conceived the utility principle, he might have included the "universal interest", an idea initially stated in Plan of Parliamentary Reform where it appears as a more particular conception of the greatest happiness principle aimed at the "maximum … of comfort and security" for all (1838 43, III, 452).
It attracted a positive review in Motion Picture World of May 11 , 1912 which described Gibson's performance as "a unique piece of acting in the sensational new film-play of the Éclair Company... [which is] creating a great activity in the market, for the universal interest in the catastrophe has made a national demand".
He explores situations of universal interest with warmth, an openness to visual beauty and, at times, a feel for suspense that shows his debt to Hitchcock.
Immediate postpartum provision of implants would offer expanded programmatic opportunity, as women are increasingly receiving safe delivery services and there is almost universal interest among postpartum women in avoiding a pregnancy for at least 2 years.
Finally, the universal interest and application of the content was an important factor that led to the survival of some nonliterary texts through translation into Arabic, Latin, and other foreign languages.
Yet this slender book, frequently hilarious and dead-on as it is, indulges a common folly: assuming that one's idiosyncratic prenatal experience is of universal interest.
