Around Bacon's time, Shakespeare expressed an opposing sentiment in his great tragedy Macbeth with the line "it [life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," which echoes more recently in Steven Weinberg's line from The First Three Minutes (1977)—"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless".
The tragic irony of this alliance lies in the diametrically opposed sentiment of Christian Zionists and the remainder of the world.
During World War I he opposed German sentiments for the annexation of foreign territories as a condition for a peace settlement.
"I want to sincerely apologize for the distress the report caused the authors, and to make clear that we completely oppose the sentiments it expressed," Pattinson wrote.
Skolnick directly opposed the sentiments of NBCC and announced a release plan for BRCA testing that flaunted NBCC's suggestions (confirmed in an interview between the authors and Frances Visco).
The British Labour members and the PSE Group voted in favour of Amendment 2 to delete paragraph 17, not because we opposed the sentiments and intentions, but as it was open to possible misinterpretation or charges of ambiguity.
But just as the rallies in New York have represented a variety of messages — signs have been held in opposition to President Obama yards away from signs in support of him — so did Saturday's protests contain a grab bag of sentiments, opposing nuclear power, political corruption and the privatization of water.
I think it was exactly that kind of sentiment — a statement of fact filled with sentiment as opposed to sentimentality — that got on some of the reviewers' nerves when "Nothing Personal" was published.
Statistics showing a massive falling off in actual investment, as opposed to sentiment, are slippery.
