Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
I've always been fascinated by weather.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.