Sentence examples for conventional opinions from inspiring English sources

MEP Roger Helmer wrote this: "Homophobia is merely a propaganda device designed to denigrate and stigmatise those holding conventional opinions which have been held by most people through most of recorded history".

On the climate of the time, Nettlau remarked: "The air was saturated with accepted nations, conventional opinions and the peculiar illusions which people entertained concerning small nationalities and the virtues and defects of certain races.

It wasn't because they were afraid of enraging conventional opinion.

His willingness to trust his intellect against the weight of conventional opinion is admirable.

Contrary to conventional opinion, the numbers like the offense in this one.

"The Golden Age of American Impressionism," an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum of Art on Long Island, isn't likely to change conventional opinion.

Most recruits have less dramatic views, but a remarkably high proportion get quoted and published in newspapers, and don't mind upsetting conventional opinion.

In yet another seminal piece, The Trouble With Nigeria, he said, "In spite of conventional opinion, Nigeria has been less than fortunate in its leadership.

These demonstrated his poor financial management and proved pivotal in her thesis challenging the conventional opinion that he was a great editor.

That wasn't, however, the prevailing conventional opinion, especially given the fact that not all that many members of the literary community had much direct experience of it.

Founded in New York City in 1954, Dissent features criticism of conventional opinion on both the right and the left from an independent, social-democratic perspective.