Sentence examples for a positive connotation from inspiring English sources

In pre-2011 Syria, the word "revolution" never had a positive connotation in my head.

The term "Orientalism" has not always had a positive connotation for Middle Easterners.

There is furbizia, which might loosely be translated as "cunning" or "sly", but often carries a positive connotation.

Can it not then acquire a positive connotation?This is a question asked by supporters of Tottenham Hotspur, an English football team.

John Locke, a professor of linguistics at the City University of New York, said that in some contexts the use of the word government had a positive connotation: government bonds and government-backed programs, for example.

"Until recently, you could not even use the word reform, and now not only is it widely accepted, it is always used with a positive connotation," said a senior United Nations official in Pyongyang, the capital.

To mitigate the issue, we have renamed the effect to exclude any positive connotation associated with it.

"Bonus" is a term that used to have a very positive connotation.

Since [D] was a rather new variant and does not have a clear positive connotation, the conservative attitude held by high-level talkers might have prevented them from embracing the variant full-heartedly.

Unless "geek" now has a truly positive connotation, I would ask that the Speech Team be revisited.

(They also tend to focus on Bain Capital's venture capital businesses, which carry a more positive connotation).