Sentence examples for change the connotations from inspiring English sources

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra performs frequent free shows for packed houses, functioning entirely off grants, in an attempt to change the connotations of classical music as being solely for the wealthy.

All additions and omissions of text were done for practical reasons and did not change the connotation of the quotations.

Dr. Cheryl Cooky, president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, believes that it's going to take more than one individual coming out to change the negative connotation of the "gay male athlete".

I asked them both about how we can change the largely negative connotations our culture has surrounding women, power and ambition.

Medical marijuana activists have done lots of work to change the vocabulary and the connotations with marijuana.

However, I'd like to challenge us to change the vocabulary around this. War has such a negative connotation.

The Longmont City Council voted 6 to 1 this week to change the name of a local street, Chivington Drive, after a group complained that it had racist connotations.

In Pinkins's electrifying rendition, all the connotations of the word "change" come together: "Pocket change change me, / can't afford loose change, can't afford change".

The term "family-friendly" in American culture stirs images of Old Navy sales, theme park Groupons and child-protected basement screenings of "The Lego Movie". The White House is striving to change that soft connotation, connecting family-friendly workplace policies to a stronger labor force and economy.

Word meanings and connotations change all the time.

Yet, the proposed terminology does not have internal ideological contradiction or inherent history that might change its implicit connotation.