Sentence examples for In connotation from inspiring English sources

As in "837" the role playing is childish in manner but adult in connotation.

(The word that the women used, "importuner," ranges in connotation from bugging someone to really disturbing her. Whatever the level of offense, the behavior is clearly unwanted).

Thus, in Genesis the words, "In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth," Elohim is monotheistic in connotation, though its grammatical structure seems polytheistic.

Originally purely religious in connotation, bronze vessels were given as gifts of emperors to their favoured subjects by the Zhou dynasty (1111 255 bce) and from that time on were commonly employed for secular purposes.

Now we are in the midst of a historical change in connotation: Being fat no longer means that you are prosperous, but rather that you don't have the time, money or wherewithal to keep yourself in shape.

Now, if only we can fully make the change in connotation — and completely break the bonds between being fat and being prosperous, between being fat and being beautiful, between being fat and being loved — we could take the necessary steps toward a healthier future.

An intervention was necessary, and Copland provided it in "Connotations".

And Enigmatist's first name is itself rich in connotations, from antipodean slang for a policeman to a 19th-century racist term for a Chinese person.

My formal wine education began when the word aperitif, so rich in connotations of the Good Life, penetrated my awareness as a Rutgers freshman.

Thus, McCain's iron triangle has a built-in pejorative connotation.

Roger Clemens speaks of his salad days and there is nothing good in the connotation.