"Father knows best," she always said, whatever her private opinion must be.

Cutler was of the private opinion that some people were cut out for space travel and others weren't.

Better still is a governor who lacks even private opinions.

Besides what you have just heard was my private opinion and not for public circulation.

That is a private opinion which I do not voice for print.

In other words, they represented his private opinions rather than official teaching.

We may detect his private opinion only at one point.

"Then what is your private opinion of her as a person?"

Not to listen, but to keep them from knowing I'd heard their private opinions of me.

We are not partisans in the process, whatever our private opinions.