The phrase "collective idea" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an idea or concept that is shared or held by a group of people. Example: The collective idea of democracy is deeply ingrained in American society.
What Mickey says is the Messiah is a collective idea.
"My mother truly hated it — she hated the idea that you had to conform to a collective idea," Libeskind said.
As more explorers ventured into the Arctic, our collective idea of it acquired a few additional details.
"When a team goes 15 games without losing it is because they have very good players and a collective idea of how to play that works.
We don't know if it is a collective idea on the part of core leaders in the party to push him forward to centre stage as a strong leader or [if it is] he himself taking centre stage," he added.
Eating in the San Gabriel Valley, Gold has observed that, unlike in New York, where immigrants quickly broaden and assimilate their cooking styles to reflect the city's collective idea of "Chinese food," the insular nature of Los Angeles allows imported regional cuisines to remain intact, traceable almost to the restaurant owners' villages of origin.
"General Jumper and I will then review our collective ideas with fellow officers and direct immediate implementation," he said.
Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up with collective ideas that aren't predictable.
In 2013, we still need to diversify our collective ideas about beauty, but also learn how to respect women of all ages as human beings.
And if it must, what will that do to our collective ideas about memory, experience, and how to live in the moment?
In late March, on the day after Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron visited OMA from Basel for an all-day meeting on Schrager's Manhattan hotel (which will face Cooper Union on Astor Place), a team composed of architects from the two offices was trying to incorporate the collective ideas.
