Sentence examples for connotations rather than from inspiring English sources

It is also optional for use during Advent, though blue is the preferred color for this season because of its hopeful connotations rather than the penitential character implied by purple and its association with Lent.

What he doesn't like about the bar group's resolution, he said, "is that it again reinforces the perception that being a lobbyist and being registered as a lobbyist has adverse connotations rather than positive ones".

What would John Murphy have thought, contemplating that Di* t beer back in the early 1970's, of overseeing the launch not just of a successful product and the creation of a whole new market segment but also the popularization of a word that would take on a connotation rather different than what Miller had in mind?

The word "worker" typically carries the connotation of remuneration rather than lifelong forced labor and chattel slavery.

Last fall, the textbook publisher McGraw-Hill faced criticism for a section of a history book that stated, "The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations". The word "worker" typically carries the connotation of remuneration rather than lifelong forced labor and chattel slavery.

Irène Joliot-Curie, one of Perey's supervisors, opposed the name due to its connotation of cat rather than cation.

For instance, dark blue may have similar mood or emotional connotations to dark brown rather than to a pale shade of blue.

While there has been much outrage at the elitist connotation of burning goods rather than making them affordable, executives at the British fashion house are no doubt struggling to defend how they miscalculated production.

The literal meaning of the word angel thus points more toward the function or status of such beings in a cosmic hierarchy rather than toward connotations of essence or nature, which have been prominent in popular piety, especially in Western religions.

(That locution, also called a soul kiss, involves the insertion of the tongue into the osculatory partner's mouth; both these terms are now considered old-fashioned by teenagers, who -- after a brief flirtation with the odious sucking face -- turned for a time to the puckish tonsil hockey, which has a sporting rather than an international connotation).

Clarence House yesterday issued a pained denial of claims that the Prince of Wales has held private discussions with "trusted friends" about the possibility of reigning as George VII rather than risk the negative connotations attached to the name King Charles.