What's the difference between mindset and opinion?

Mindset


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (2) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
  • (3) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
  • (4) The police in Staten Island, she believes, “have a mindset of racism.
  • (5) What that mindset signally failed to grasp is that there is something called computer science – a discipline with fundamental concepts and principles, just like other sciences .
  • (6) So what was shocking to me about Titanic was that the guy gave his life for the woman and not for his country – I just couldn’t understand that mindset.” “The other shocking thing about that movie was that it was set 100 years ago, and I realised that our country is in the 21 st century and we still haven’t reached that level of development,” she said.
  • (7) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
  • (8) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
  • (9) I think that was deeply shocking and it's the kind of comment that reveals a whole mindset.
  • (10) Reasonable grounds to suspect a crime are rendered unnecessary when the entire mindset is considered criminal.
  • (11) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
  • (12) Fullerton says there is great potential ahead if society can change its collective mindset: “This is a monumental challenge that holds the promise of uniting our generation in a shared purpose.
  • (13) May 5, 2015 The College of Occupational Therapists: “The Care Act and NHS Five Year Forward View put the right focus on prevention, but without a shift in both mindset and resources the current system will fail.
  • (14) And, while the oil-boom dynamic here and elsewhere in Alberta means this is still a common mindset, people are waking up to the many great things about Edmonton, including the potential it offers to become even better.
  • (15) A mindset in which individuals are ultimately discarded will never achieve peace or justice,” he wrote.
  • (16) "Personally, not for me, and I think everyone should have that mindset.
  • (17) Speaking in detail about the Trident review for the first time since he was sacked as minister, Harvey said: "If you can just break yourself out of that frankly almost lunatic mindset for a second, all sorts of alternatives start to look possible, indeed credible."
  • (18) But as in all sciences, real advances require a self-critical mindset and a strict adherence to the scientific method.
  • (19) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
  • (20) Kamau said the global goals represented a phenomenal opportunity for private sector investment, but a shift in mindset was required to bring about positive change.

Opinion


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.
  • (n.) The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  • (n.) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  • (n.) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  • (n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  • (v. t.) To opine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
  • (4) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
  • (5) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
  • (6) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (7) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (8) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
  • (9) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
  • (10) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (11) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
  • (12) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
  • (13) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (14) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
  • (15) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (16) The current opinion, based on different clinical tests, is that parasympathetic impairment occurs earlier in autonomic dysfunctions.
  • (17) In our opinion, this is the first case of that condition reported in this country.
  • (18) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
  • (19) After presenting some incontestable facts of CSF-physiology the actual and quite controversial opinions on ventricular and extraventricular sources of CSF as well as the mechanism of CSF-absorption are discussed.
  • (20) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.