Sentence examples for has an overtone from inspiring English sources

Consumerism (from the Latin consumere, "use up") has an overtone of waste.

Today, the word's use in America still has an overtone of deliberate exaggeration among remaining Dooley fans, though on the Indian subcontinent, newspapers in English use it as a synonym for "terrorist".

The circuit has an overtone PLL oscillator, time-shared driving/detecting logic, a kind of adaptive band pass filters.

Each colour that you see leans towards or has echoes of another colour - so a cherry tomato red has an orange overtone, whereas watermelon red has a violet overtone.

And all security has an unmistakable overtone of politics, whatever the reality or immediacy of any announced threat.

Insofar as my answer to these questions is no — and that was in good measure the argument I tried to make — the title has an ironic overtone.

It also has a sinister overtone, suggesting a dark rain, burdened with soot, streaking downward.

I know this is the word used in English but "Holocaust" has a sacrificial overtone that is unbearable to me.

In the cinema, "remake" has a pejorative overtone and is generally regarded as a lazy, opportunist or parasitic practice.

Age-resisting would have some sales appeal, but resistance now has a political overtone of insurgency; moreover, it is not as proactively empowering as defiance, a word immortalized in Churchill's wartime "in defeat, defiance".

Maureen Dowd's satire may be funny ("Charlie McCarthy Hearings," column, April 1), but it has a serious overtone: the president's staff cannot trust him to face the 9/11 independent commission without a monitor and a guide (the vice president), even in a private session.