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.
Noise has a negative connotation in the classical view of biology.
The Greek word epidemios is constructed by combining the preposition epi (on) with the noun demos (people), but demos originally meant "the country" (inhabited by its people) before taking the connotation "the people" in classical Greek.
Even if they do not explicitly raise ethical questions, in the works of Waltz and of many other of today's neorealists, a double ethics is presupposed and words such realpolitik no longer have the negative connotations that they had for classical realists, such as Hans Morgenthau.
"If you hear classical music, it has got all sorts of connotations of sophistication, affluence and wealth, and it makes you feel a bit posh," said Prof. Adrian North, a psychology lecturer at the university.
He draws a firm line, however, between this definition and the sexually predatory connotations that surround some of the great classical choreographers, such as George Balanchine (who married five of his ballerinas) and Frederick Ashton (who, though now widely believed to have been gay, was obsessed with his muse, Margot Fonteyn).
Even in 19th-century Greece, the focus was mainly on the classical past, while Byzantine tradition had been associated with negative connotations.
Celtic crosses were popular in Britain and Ireland, partially because they avoided Catholic connotations, although they were considered vulgar by more classical architects such as Blomfield.
When we refer to measurement error variances, true scores, and the like, our concern is for validity via models that match the relevant worldly causal structures, rather than the mere reliability connotations such terms can carry in the context of classical test theory.
However, the adjectives used to describe Telemachus—"blameless", "discerning", and "decent"—are words with positive connotations in other of Tennyson's poetry and within the classical tradition, where "blameless" is an attribute of gods and heroes.
For one group of American architects, it represents the "classical" tradition connected with the Rome Prize, the City Beautiful movement and the connotations of social entitlement attached to the firm McKim, Meade, & White.
