Art critic, painter and writer John Berger pitches in: "Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion".
Class resentment has waxed and waned in this country, but it is not typically a widespread, default emotion of the American middle class.
Initially, the widespread emotion was shock following the extraordinary events of this week.
So despite good grounds for scepticism, #blacklivesmatter really is a word, and given the powerful and widespread emotions it represents, as good a candidate as any for the word to sum up a troubled year in America.
The marketplace of ideas (and emotions), he said, is responding to a widespread terror of divorce.
There was a widespread revulsion against 19th-century Romanticism and everything it stood for: preening emotion, heroic bombast, loss of control.
Displacement is a widespread practice.
A widespread search began.
It is winning a widespread hearing.
A widespread strike is affecting transport systems.
This is a widespread practice.Unwinding.
