The current mayoral campaign is one in which pronouncements heavy with racial connotations have been followed by bitter debates over whether bigotry was in fact committed.
The New Yorker, October 11 , 1969P. 164 The current mayoral campaign is one in which pronouncements heavy with racial connotations have been followed by bitter debates over whether bigotry was in fact committed.
Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of "its" — are entirely oblivious to.
In its most recent usage, its negative connotations have been greatly enhanced by the implied or explicit sneer with which the word is delivered by the elites and the apple-polishers who, wittingly or not, serve them.
In the Western literature on the notion of meaning in the Indian tradition, various terms such as "sense," "reference," "denotation," "connotation," "designatum," and "intension" have been frequently used to render the Sanskrit term artha.
However, Survival International – the charity that works for the rights of tribal peoples around the world – says on its website: "The term 'Pygmy' has gained negative connotations, but has been reclaimed by some indigenous groups as a term of identity".
The meaning of that adjective is "unbalanced," which carries the wrong connotation; besides, the term has been taken over by the fashion industry to describe dresses with one side of the hem barely covering the hip and the other side offering a flash of ankle.
Platt drew a distinction between Old Wharton ― the Wharton of Trump, the place that used to be called the "Wharton School of Finance" ― and New Wharton, where the word "Finance," with its connotations of Wall Street, has been lopped off the name, and where the curriculum is shifting toward team-building, entrepreneurship and innovation.
"Ubiquitination" has long had a negative connotation and in the past has been solely associated with the proteasome system.
Especially the head and neck position "hyperflexion" may have a negative connotation, not only because it has been subject of many studies but also the press discussed it extensively.
