However, there was the basic feeling that we belonged together.
Your editorial captured the basic feelings of many faculty members, students and staff.
"So there's a basic feeling that we don't believe what our politicians tell us."
Her basic feelings about consumer technology did not change.
"The basic feeling is that the political class is all the same."
It's futile to have the kind of talk I want if the basic feelings aren't there.
"My basic feeling was that anyone who could or would hurt the Dodgers was an enemy."
"What kind of antidote is possible for the basic feeling of joy?"
That is, without forcing me to give up my basic feelings about Vulcans?
"But the basic feeling was that we have our own agenda to lay out."