"Presumptive nominee" is not incorrect, but connotation counts; presumptive strikes me as presumptuous.
Mr. Stetson has arrived at an ingenious formulation, exploiting avant-garde jazz techniques but with connotations of accessible songcraft.
The narrator mentions the word passeur which means "ferryman" or "smuggler," but with connotations of a guide.
In Arabic, the word "bayt" translates literally as house, but its connotations resonate beyond rooms and walls, summoning longings gathered about family and home.
His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is "irtidad" or "ridda," usually translated from the Arabic as "apostasy," but with connotations of rebellion and treason.
Taking in 500 years of fashion, and featuring over 40 designers, it brings together garments that were, and are, considered "vulgar", but the connotations are not necessarily negative.
Dix claimed to have invented the definitive Weimar art movement, Neue Sachlichkeit (the term, dubbed by a Kunsthalle director, in 1923, is usually translated as New Objectivity, but with connotations of sobriety and banality).
He is a first-rate observer and analyst: "The decor of the Bamboo is rattan and lacquer, for the word 'colonial' has nothing but positive connotations in Asia these days, and everything colonial is deemed handsome, stylish.
Mobbing behavior may not only be for safety then, but has connotations for sexual selection mobbing is a dangerous act for the male bird and gives the female a chance to sit back and pick the best of the bunch.
It exudes nothing but negative connotations and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
