Sentence examples for connotations of war from inspiring English sources

Being drum-based, the music also brings connotations of war.

Someone mentioned the fact that the grenade shape might bring up unfortunate connotations of war.

Moreover, by branding the cause a war and calling the enemy terror, the administration has lumped like with unlike foes and elevated hostile elements from the ranks of the criminal (stigmatized in all societies) to the ranks of soldiers of war (a status that carries connotations of sacrifice and courage).

The connotations of brainwashing, following the experiences of American prisoners of war (highlighted by the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate), made Romney's comment devastating, especially as it reinforced the negative image of Romney's abilities that had already developed.

Later, as Europe reeled from the carnage of World War I and connotations of European royalty fell into disfavor, the B&O discreetly omitted the sobriquet Royal Blue Line from its New York passenger service and the Royal Blue disappeared from B&O timetables.

It is an eastern Bosnian town with connotations of evil, since it was the scene of some of the most gruesome war crimes of the 1992-95 war.

To a Japanese child after the war, Mr. Earle said, "a Jeep had positive connotations of a chance for chewing gum and chocolate".

As the hippie anti-war movement adopted the sign so thoroughly, it co-opted the symbol itself, attaching connotations of peace atop older, established ones of victory.

Mr. Nikitin said he genuinely was not aware of the connotations of the Stage 1 tattoo, with its swastikalike form, though both his grandfathers were killed by German forces in World War II.

Eating beans has connotations of death.

"It has cultural connotations of triviality.