Sentence examples for of connotation from inspiring English sources

Life works by a process of connotation, an evolving multisensory apprehension of the shifting world.

It has to do with the penumbra of connotation around a word, which is largely governed by history and context.

Selecting a word is often more a matter of connotation, the subtle implication of ideas or emotions, than of denotation, the literal meaning.

If writing must always bear some relationship to beauty (and Beckett's has a great, mineral beauty), if you can only limit the play of connotation but not eliminate it, why bother to try? There's more bad faith in an artificial rigour than in the richness of language through which desolation filters here.

The main vehicle for this "ontological reduction" is the theory of connotation, coupled with the related theory of "exposition".

In Leśniewski's mature work Mill's notion of connotation is dropped, along with the concept of property which it employs, so the sole logical function of names is denoting.

By the 1960's, however, this chain of connotations had broken.

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

"Of course people built a lot of connotations into the film that weren't necessarily there".

This results in a "counterpoint" of connotations and of emotions as well as in a musical counterpoint.

She presides eternally over the chasm between promiscuity and virility, the forest of connotations that separate "adventuress" from "adventurer".