Sentence examples for of connotations from inspiring English sources

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".

That is because, along with its literal definition, the word has a plethora of connotations instilled in the collective mind through literary and pop culture references.

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.

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

In order to see why, let us return briefly to the theory of connotation.[24] Connotation was described above in terms of primary and secondary signification.