climate of opinion
Example Sentences
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He reshaped the climate of opinion, there’s no doubt about it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2020
In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected James K. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
As WH Auden wrote after Freud's death, "To us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion".
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2014
The poet, W. H. Auden, captured him thus: If often he was wrong and at times absurd, To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion Family Tangle.
From Time Magazine Archive
This misunderstanding has provided a climate of opinion favoring the growth of governmental paternalism in labor relations.
From State of the Union Address by Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
