Sentence examples for lay sentiment from inspiring English sources

On a wide range of issues, the only continents on which most Catholics agreed with the Vatican's line were Africa and Asia.On the subject of artificial contraception, lay sentiment was heavily in favour of change, even in the otherwise dutiful Philippines.

The underlying eco-message is laudable, and the filmmakers deserve respect for getting a movie about garden design financed at all, but they do lay the sentiment on thick with a bulldozer, smothering the good bits with a dense compost of mawkishness and cliche.

Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

He may not show it, but he is devastated that the last 20 years of what he thought was growing acceptance on your part now feels like just so much lying (a sentiment I can't help but share).

We believe a similar sentiment lay behind last night's applause.

The nobility of the music lay less in the sentiment than in the originality and rectitude of the language.

They remembered how openly racist America had been for most of its history, and they knew that these sentiments still lay close to the surface of public life.

But the general sentiment lies somewhere in the middle.

"We are working hard within our caucus to find where sentiment lies," Mr. Gephardt said late last week.

Sometimes, the wonkiness lies in the sentiment being expressed, as in the cake inscribed, "Sorry for all those things we said".

But nothing could be plainer than the lopsided votes to show where Congressional sentiment lies these days in the balance between personal freedoms and security exigencies.