Sadly, the dramatic arias required for an opera to achieve universal popularity are largely absent.

Given their background and their almost universal popularity, it's a wonder they're not monsters.

How else to explain the universal popularity of Salamanca and Toulouse?

So the comfort blanket of universal popularity must remain immovable, and the facts have to be adjusted accordingly.

And we were able to develop strong musical concepts drawing from the universal popularity of dancing and parades.

Still, despite its almost universal popularity, it is not a holiday that generally remains fixed in the mind for anything other than sentimental reasons.

Nor did Mr. Kennedy seek universal popularity, even in his own country.

An industry that relies, in part, on people contravening warning notices will never win universal popularity but can provide a valuable service.

If anybody can gain universal popularity in this city, he can do that.

Bonds does not use steroids, Rains said, but his lack of universal popularity makes it easier "to criticize and condemn him."