Others might employ historical connotations that produce an adjustment to the understanding of place.
Obviously, the Chinese were naive to choose an architect whose name carried such dark historical connotations.
"But there are bigger battles to fight than over a name that has very interesting historical connotations".
They do not know that originally the red and black stood for blood and soil with all the sinister historical connotations that come with that fact.
IN A region where walls and fences come with heavy historical connotations, all of them negative, people are again erecting walls.
However, the word also has some disturbing historical connotations that I overlooked, and in applying it to a Latino politician, I goofed.
It has historical connotations in art, you see, because the tondo (basically Italian for "round") was a popular format for religious icons and allegorical pictures during the Renaissance.
White supremacists might like to say that they are white nationalists in order to distance themselves from the historical connotations of white supremacy, imply that their cause is merely patriotic and concerned with rights, or suggest that white people worldwide belong to one nation, but it seems apparent that what they promote is, in fact, white supremacy.
Its literal meaning good birth suggests a suitable goal for all prospective parents, yet its historical connotations tie it to the selective breeding programs, horrifying concentration camps, medical experiments, and mass exterminations promoted by Germany's Nazi regime in World War II.
"Other people might have other suggestions, but in terms of the two existing, in terms of Derry and Strabane, and the historical connotations and the identity that they have and the wider hinterland, it's trying to incorporate all of that into the name of the new council".
