It implies a unanimity that may or may not exist.
There are serious questions, drowned out by the past week's near-hysterical unanimity, that can and should be asked.
What they lacked was the total unanimity that makes a great performance of the Quartet seem like a mind-reading séance.
Serious scrutiny of the Khmers Rouges and their allies might indeed upset the cheery unanimity that seems suddenly to have infected Cambodia's rulers and their friends abroad.
When it comes to the landscape of American choral conducting after Shaw, all the unanimity that greets mention of his name evaporates.
The Guarneri became one of the world's best-known quartets, setting a standard in quartetistry with seamless, warm and impassioned playing and a unanimity that did not efface individual personalities.
The defendant, a young man from a poor background on trial for his life, is exonerated, and the anxious, law-abiding citizens who would have railroaded him achieve a unanimity that remains a stirring vision of consensus.
Newspapers that were seen as sympathetic to Mr. Thaksin and the government have published strongly worded editorials against the bill, contributing to a near unanimity that is highly unusual in the country's print media.
Instead, they point to reasoning that fails to provide clear guidance to lower courts, sometimes seemingly driven by a desire for unanimity that can lead to fuzzy, unwieldy rulings.
With a swift unanimity that would have been hard to imagine even a decade ago, the world's other big powers -- Europe, Russia, China and Japan -- have all voiced support for the fight.
This centralising of power, and the fact that at least five of the seven members are broadly from the same faction of the party (backed by Mr Jiang), suggest a unanimity that could aid reform if Mr Xi chooses to go down that road.Three things sadly make change less likely.
