Sentence examples for class connotations from inspiring English sources

"Disrespectful" is one of those words that is loaded with racial and class connotations that many people consider offensive.

But, whereas in America heavy metal has distinctly working class connotations, in India the music is accessible only to the privileged few.

Though it has certain class connotations (upper middle-class families on holiday in the Lake District, regattas, the National Trust) fleece does not denote morality, nor ethics – but merely that one has given up on life.

After the revolution, articles attacked the company for its class connotations, court pedigree and state subsidies, and as late as 1923 the repertory was condemned for imbuing the Bolshoi Theater "with all the traits of a court theater in Czarist times.

It's an association that is playfully exploited by Louis Simpson in his poem On the Lawn at the Villa, where the respectably upper-middle class connotations of the two nouns in the title are ironically foregrounded in the opening lines so as to set up something quite unexpected in the poem that follows.

In the United States and a few other countries, the elitist class connotation traditionally attached to the civil service has been either consciously abandoned or avoided, with the result that professional recognition has come slowly and only partially.

But not everyone thinks our love of crates stems from their working-class connotations.

By putting the Croc on a raised platform, Gvasalia recalled another shoe with equally class-bound connotations: the chopine.

Of course, this being Britain, there are certain connotations of class.

It was only in the 1960's that a new generation of politicians began to reclaim the label, often shorn of its inconvenient connotations of class struggle.

We used the most common names for each nationality to minimize the concerning bias, avoiding in this way misattribution to other ethnic groups, or connotations of class or socio-economic status (Zschirnt and Ruedin 2016).