21.   Israelis can be an argumentative people, and opinions are often held with theological fervor.

22.   Kathy Waters of Gaithersburg, Md., who shares season tickets to Camden Yards with her father, holds an opinion that echoes that of many Orioles fans.

23.   Lean and tall, somewhat stern in appearance, he tended to hold opinions with dead certainty, and more than once they ran against the popular tide.

24.   My aunt, a retired elementary-school principal, holds definite opinions about doors.

25.   Not only do people hold more opinions, they assert them with greater conviction.

26.   Rorem holds opinions about the orchestral world that are as strong as his opinions about everything else.

27.   She also holds opinions as to why the growth of the LPGA Tour has outdistanced its European counterpart.

28.   The companies hold the opinion that secondhand smoke cannot be faulted for any illnesses, while they reject allegations that their position is the invention of an industrywide conspiracy.

29.   The opinion is widely held by political activists of both parties around the country.

30.   The second, rarer, sort has strongly held opinions and speaks them aloud, however unwelcome they may be to voters.