Other culture watchers, though, insist that the cinematic tribute reflects, and even guides, America's collective direction and values.
He was attempting to lead the unruly crowd, doing his best to train the choruses of enthusiasm in a collective direction.
The National Republican Trust PAC is splashing out $2.5m to run the following ad in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.Rick Wilson, the consultant who created the ad, told Politico: "This is the base giving a collective direction to where the campaign should have gone a long time ago".
"It has a more collective direction, and historically it has demonstrated that it's very stable".
While national visions provide a collective direction for policy development and implementation, public health programmes are primarily developed and delivered at the provincial and local levels (for example, municipal, regional).
A survey of 10 New Yorkers, conducted near Centre and Canal Streets — where no numbered street signs could be consulted — suggested that the Bloomberg administration's data may even overstate the city's collective sense of direction.
There is no scouting network in place, analysis methods need to be better and there needs to be a collective sense of direction.
The way we travel needs a collective push in the right directions.
Finally, mention must be made of L'Apport Freudien, a collective work under the direction of Pierre Kaufmann, offering a new approach to the principal concepts of psychoanalysis.
You go to one of those parties, you come in and there's a collective glance in your direction and you say, 'Oh, there is the old nigger thing, they don't want me here.' But that's not it.
