The word has always carried mixed connotations.
Nabokov was nuts for butterflies -- finding in them an image of his own dazzling verbal iridescence -- and it's not hard to see why bees have caught on, what with their mixed connotations of sweetness, pain and quiet humming industry: what novelist could resist that?
But to him, as to a significant number of others in the wake of World War I (he was born in 1907), Englishness and Victorian notions about patriotism in general had mixed connotations.
In America's South, the flag has mixed connotations.
The ways by which the majority of the teachers replied (to questions for which they had to use natural selection without its being suggested), refer us back to the aforementioned ambiguous, vague, and unclear explanations mixed with teleological connotations in the textbooks, which, notably, are the only ones published and made available to teachers.
On the territory that is emerging space takes on articulate, complicated connotations: "more mixed than pure, not so much smooth and homogeneous as changing, harlequin, zebra-striped and in multiple, connected networks" (Serres [1993] p. 270).
[ 1, 5, 6, 30, 31] The conclusions regarding the loss of these cues in online communication have been very mixed, both with positive and negative connotations.
Intentionally or not, the piece also shows how the electric guitar maintains its own character and connotations even when completely integrated into a mixed ensemble.
Often the phenomena that we truly observe in urban public spaces are mixed, and we see that even the same phenomenon can take on different connotations in time and space, depending on context variables and on its evolution for internal dynamics or in reply to external interventions.
By summing up the different positions, including the political connotation of the national government at the time of signing, each pact was labelled as homogeneous or mixed.
Its title had two connotations.
