He stands, if not for our time, for one of its currents -- the one that flows back into the Platonic cave where the world that poets tested their words upon for millenniums has turned back to flickering shapes; sentiments to presentiments, reality to rumors.
J. Stephen Lauck, chief executive and portfolio manager at Ashfield Capital Partners in San Francisco, said impressions about the health of the financials would continue to shape investor sentiment.
"Decades of tension and conflict between the police and minority communities, along with strong informal channels of communication, have conspired to shape public sentiment about the police," Rosenbaum concluded.
However, when you are a data-driven oligarchy like Facebook, Google, Amazon, or Uber, you can't really wash your hands of the impact of your algorithms and your ability to shape popular sentiment in our society.
The questions have lingered since the Pentagon five years ago shut down its Office of Strategic Influence over concerns that its behind-the-scenes efforts to shape public sentiment in wartime might undermine the military's credibility.
Even so, President Obama might look for more opportunities to use his oratorical gifts to shape public sentiment in accordance with the best American ideals.
A former filmmaker, he's long been captivated by the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi filmmaker, and the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein for their power to shape public sentiment.
Why he believes that, and why he would risk allowing his agenda to be undermined when it would take so little to help shape public sentiment has allowed the right-wing to set the terms of public discourse is baffling.
Just yesterday I eagerly transferred them, well over 300 volumes in various sizes, shapes and sentiment, from their temporary shelves to the refinished bookcase in my newly refurbished family room.
