Sentence examples for kind of connotation from inspiring English sources

When 'we speak of violence, and this is what bothers me about the notion, we always have in mind a kind of connotation of physical power' which 'allows one to think that good power' is power that is 'not permeated by violence, is not physical power' (Foucault, 2006[1974]: 14).

Especially with the male half of the team, Wall Street crusader and disgraced governor / prostitution client Spitzer, with whom the term "intimacy" carries the kind of connotations CNN would I think wish to avoid.

"Sex addict has all kinds of connotations I don't want to use," she says.

He explained to MTV News that the video's concept, "There's all kinds of connotations to the word 'stripped.' I wanted to strip it down to one take.

We counted positive, neutral, and negative connotations associated with responses to each category to identify what kinds of connotations they had.

"Triplex," when used with any kind of sexual connotation, sounds like a herpes medication.

Foam gets kind of a negative connotation.

I tried hard to push the word Conradian from my mind, for I understood it to be imbued with all kinds of ambiguous connotations, but truly this was a Conradian world that I was entering.

"You have to remember that back then the word 'pornography' had all kinds of horrible connotations, not in the way it does today," Semmel explained in an interview with Hyperallergic.

Radnor: I think the word "earnest" kind of has a negative connotation on some level.

You know, I went to school in Anacostia and when you hear the word "Anacostia" around GW, it kind of has a negative connotation.