That was not a universally held sentiment.
"Putin prevented the disintegration of Russia," Prokhanov said, echoing a widely held sentiment.
Bowa said he was surprised that Torre would fly to Tampa if he knew he was going to reject the Yankees' offer, echoing a widely held sentiment.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's political views were so opaque that both Democrats and Republicans courted him after he stepped down, and Gen. George C. Marshall reflected a widely held sentiment within the military when he claimed he never even voted while in uniform.
"There's a lot of bullshit that surrounds the music industry," says Jim James of the group My Morning Jacket, who played the Ramble twice, expressing a widely held sentiment.
I'm getting it from my Giants' friends, and they can always say, 'When was the last time you won a Super Bowl?' and what can you say to that?" But he added, softening, and perhaps revealing a more collectively held sentiment: "There's no one on the Giants that bugs me.
Singing in a homely croak, he uses the nostalgic bounce of ragtime and the hymnlike chords of parlor songs to hold sentiments that would appall Stephen Foster.
If the whisper accuracy holds, sentiment could plunge to new lows and take individual stocks and perhaps the entire market with it or, at the very least, make recovery more difficult.
Despite disagreements about Manifest Destiny's validity at the time, O'Sullivan had stumbled on a broadly held national sentiment.
Echoing a commonly held biker sentiment, he believes that factory-issued pipes, muffled by a decree of the Environmental Protection Agency, choke performance and are so quiet that car and truck drivers will not hear them.
