It's certainly an arguable case, but it is not as though he is swimming against the great tide of public opinion by saying Churchill did great things against the Nazis. (totalpolitics.com)
In one masterfully conceived shot, Leigh evocatively situates us within the milieu of a Turner canvas, while almost subliminally shading in one of the film's foremost themes: the once celebrated painter's progressive sidelining by the tumultuous forces of 19th - century history as well as the fickle tide of public opinion. (slantmagazine.com)
«Worse still is an American exchange student, Tracy, with a crush on Atari, and who leads a singlehanded campaign to turn the tide of public opinion against Mayor Kobayashi, thus reifying old stereotypes about Japanese passivity,» MacFarlane writes. (businessinsider.com)