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Example sentences for "popular feeling"

  • The animosities of national hatred have been a fertile source of these vehicles of popular feeling--which discover themselves in severe or grotesque caricatures.

  • This perhaps was a tribute which ministerial haughtiness paid to popular feeling, or to the jealousy of a royal master.

  • The rise of these two gods is to be referred probably to the dissatisfaction in the later times with the phenomenal character which still clung, in popular feeling, to the older deities.

  • Popular feeling appears to have accepted this divinization without question and in sincerity; educated circles accepted it as an act of political policy.

  • This practice (of stock watering) has unquestionably done more to create and keep alive a popular feeling of hostility against the railroads of the United States than any other one cause.

  • This affords a good indication of the extent of popular feeling on the subject.

  • Delay, however, was the object of the Canadian party, apparently in the hope of giving time for a demonstration of popular feeling on the other side of the Atlantic.

  • Lord Aberdeen dared not face the popular feeling on that question.

  • The condemned man was affected by this outburst of popular feeling, and, as if afraid the mob might break through the barriers and tear him to pieces, he made haste to ascend the scaffold.

  • Popular feeling, skilfully directed by the government, took up the cry from one end of France to the other, 'The navy must be restored.

  • Popular feeling in the United States is pretty much at sea in this matter; there is with it no intermediate step between personal courage with a gun in its hand and entire military efficiency.

  • Popular feeling took up the cry, from one end of France to the other, 'The navy must be restored.

  • But I do not believe that the course of the Legislature is a fair expression of popular feeling.

  • And as if this awakening of life had not been sufficiently significant, it was followed in December, 1846, by a still more alarming sign of popular feeling.

  • So for the moment Metternich hoped to stave off the natural results of this outburst of popular feeling.

  • They knew only too well how hopeless was the idea that the distress of the clergy would call forth any revulsion of popular feeling in France.

  • There was no great wave of popular feeling on the question, no mandate given to the deputies at the general election or asked for by them.

  • The torch was laid again to the altar of popular feeling, and the fierce flame of superstition burnt brightly and fiercely.

  • They had, however been received at Thespiae, whence they were recalled to Thebes and reinstated by a reaction in popular feeling.

  • Upon this speech of Cleitomachus, they say that such a revulsion of feeling came over the spectators, that Aristonicus in his turn was conquered more by the display of popular feeling than by Cleitomachus.

  • But when he was informed of the state of popular feeling, and the shortness of provisions in Phocaea, he threw aside all negotiation or discussion with the envoys, and marched towards the town.

  • So annoyed was Charles with this demonstration of popular feeling in favour of parliament that he issued a proclamation (12 Dec.

  • Popular feeling was so much on the side of the merchants that when parliament met Charles publicly renounced all claim to tonnage and poundage as a right.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after breakfast; compare the; ecclesiastical power; long story; long white; manifest itself; more work; popular edition; popular education; popular election; popular governments; popular language; popular literature; popular poetry; popular religion; popular representation; popular song; popular stories; popular superstition; popular vote; popularly elected; popularly known; popularly supposed; slowly said; the land; thousand millions