Sentence examples for fashionable opinion from inspiring English sources

That was the fashionable opinion.

Two-party politics has turned out to be more durable than fashionable opinion ever thought.

But I know this is not a fashionable opinion in education.

This has cost the church its once-privileged place in the Western establishment, and earned it the scorn of fashionable opinion.

Fashionable opinion was that Raine had "traded up" and had married not the man, but Althorp, the Spencer family seat in Northamptonshire.

Nor is it sensible to see the tripling of tuition fees as an increase in the burden on the young – although the TUC shies away from contradicting fashionable opinion on this.

In a widely read treatise titled "Divina Proportione" (1509), the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli echoed fashionable opinions of the day by declaring that our body measurements express "every ratio and proportion by which God reveals the innermost secrets of nature".

In a widely read treatise titled "Divina Proportione" (1509), the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli echoed fashionable opinions of the day by declaring that our body measurements express "every ratio and proportion by which God reveals the innermost secrets of nature". Pacioli's close friend Leonardo da Vinci provided illustrations.

The main problem of this kind of science is that it makes us spend our time justifying as rational the beliefs we inherit, instead of calling into question their foundations; it makes us label fashionable opinions as truth, instead of gauging their strength.

Like all people who run counter to fashionable critical opinion, Messiaen had his detractors, and as he grew older he became acutely sensitive about the views of those who disliked his music.

Austen's novels quickly became fashionable among opinion-makers, namely, those aristocrats who often dictated fashion and taste.