Gelernter's incisive insights cut against the grain of our country's idea- and opinion-molding elites.
Fans, unfortunately, have been bombarded with rhetoric regarding the Commissioner Goodell's decision to impose what seems to be a rather harsh penalty on the Patriots and Tom Brady, leaving their opinions molded without a understanding of how the league's rules work.
In Cudworth's opinion, this molding force is the spiritual tool, unaware of itself, which God would use in order to introduce harmony into the world, to avoid a too immediate interference, consequently being irreproachable of causing evil (Baldi2006 2010, p. 2456).
Despite the verdict of the meeting, Lancashire's committee remained of the opinion that Mold bowled legally; the Lancashire president A. N. Hornby and several of Mold's team-mates also publicly backed the bowler.
MacLaren asked those present at the meeting to give their opinion of Mold's bowling.
Your own opinion is molded and shaped by all of these external sources, instead of by your own goals and needs.
However, other factors may have played a part in his subsequent omission, including the emergence of Tom Richardson as a successful fast bowler, and the opinion that Mold's bowling was flattered by the difficult, uneven pitches on which Lancashire played their home games.
Just as Clinton's "You forgot your lunch!" was designed to elicit a belly laugh from a national audience, Gore's "I can't stay long" was intended to induce a grudgingly appreciative chuckle from an opinion-molding audience.
A key reason seems to be that that powerful, opinion-molding institutions - the mass communications media, government, political parties, and even education - are controlled, more or less, by what President Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex".
In this way, opinion can be molded by leaders with access to the media.
Yes, he knew that televised images of black people walking miles to work would help mold opinion around the world.
