Sentence examples for conventional connotations from inspiring English sources

In addition to affecting the 2016 election, America's changing religious demographics may nudge the public to rethink the now conventional connotations of the word religion.

The terms used in the statute necessarily have a conventional connotation.

While the Italian word would normally be translated into English as "virtue," and would ordinarily convey the conventional connotation of moral goodness, Machiavelli obviously means something very different when he refers to the virtù of the prince.

In his use of conventional diatonic chords, Messiaen often transcended their historically banal connotations (for example, his frequent use of the added sixth chord as a resolution).

For a lot of people, I think, you hit 60 or 65 and realise that everything is opening up". "Sheltered accommodation" has very drab connotations; the Threshold Centre is about as far from the conventional model as it can be.

The third and final connotation of "the divine order" signifies orders or commands in the conventional sense of directives that mandate what pleases God and prohibit what displeases him.

While most authors were careful not to commit themselves to any account of how this original imposition actually occurs, and while it was recognized that words such as 'person' and 'spirit' (both important in theological contexts) do acquire new connotations, it was generally supposed that the signification of common nouns within a given conventional language remains stable.

2. "Confucianism," the conventional English rendering of Ru, is in fact a poor equivalent for the Chinese term, which has a connotation more similar to "classicist" or "ritualist".

Religious connotations seem unavoidable.

And remember, connotations evolve.

Such negative connotations, see?