To call this book's topic "ambient intelligence" brings a positive connotation of something neutral and supportive in the background, maybe even something warm and fuzzy.
If 'queer' keeps its connotation of something perverse and at odds with mainstream society, which is precisely what most queer theorists want, it would seem to only validate the attacks upon gays and lesbians made by conservatives.
The Hebrew word is hasbara, which literally means "explanation," but carries the connotation here of something like "information offensive".
It's kind of great to have one's attention drawn to the shared connotation of lighting something up from within". Have you come across any other ebook versions of classics that have been subjected to similar formatting mistakes, happy or otherwise?
"We understand the connotation of taking something from the rich and giving it to the poor.
Calling the condition a "disorder" perpetuates a bias against the mental health illness and "has the connotation of being something that is a pre-existing problem that an individual has" before they came into the Army and "makes the person seem weak," he added.
I would say she's a pop artist because the connotations of "star" are something trashy and celebrity.
It exploits, too, the connotations of "intervention" as something that is good for you even if you don't want it – as in an intervention made by the friends and family of someone who is drinking too much, or a medical intervention that will hurt but save your life.
But for many white Southerners, the connotations of "rebel" evolved into something deeper, a calculated defiance characterized by one of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions: "Reacting against conventions, nonconformist".
"A snakebite is regarded as funny, scary, sort of biblical in its connotations, and something that can be laughed off and denied".
