But to talk in a public place about one's most sacred and private sentiments--well, I call it bad taste.

I was too well acquainted with M. Carbonnet, his most intimate friend, to be ignorant of his private sentiments.

Laurence concealed his private sentiment of victory and drew his mother forward.

That's clearly the private sentiment among many people in Congress and incoming Bush administration officials.

This line between private sentiment and esthetic concerns may explain the paucity of dances about Bosnia.

El-Wafi can be raw and open about her grief, but reserves self-doubt as a deeply private sentiment.

But these were sentiments too private to expose in her Founders Day speech.

I hope this line is between public reporting and private sentiments.

The armed bodies of men and women indicate that national liberation is no longer a world of private sentiment but a serious aspiration.

Graffiti has long been a daring means of public confession of private sentiments about everything from true love to the ills of the planet.