Conventional wisdom says most Americans are happy in these best of economic times.

But over all I think the conventional wisdom is probably right.

The conventional wisdom might not be the end of the story, however.

You can get around conventional wisdom a lot of the time, but not always.

Such a view has since become a kind of conventional wisdom.

"The conventional wisdom was that the political pressure would be too great."

Like most conventional wisdom, this is way off the mark.

Why, then, has it become the conventional wisdom for so many?

That, at least, is what the conventional wisdom in Washington would hold.

The results of this research are often quite different from the conventional wisdom.