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.
"Some preferred the city quiet, purified of the gunmen and any militant aspect," said Abdul Jabbar Kadhim al-Alwani, 40, the owner of an automotive repair shop, expressing 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.
"America and Britain have a plan to pay the Muslim Brotherhood so that the country will be divided – one piece to Palestine, another to Libya and another to the Christians, so that we'll have a war for 50 years," Salah Zeyada, a governor of a province in central Egypt, said last week, expressing a commonly held sentiment.
Engrained suspicions raised by Muslim opinion makers reflect deeply held sentiments among the general public.
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.
