Sentence examples for on connotations of from inspiring English sources

With time, however, the term terrorism took on connotations of cowardice, unfairness and special brutality, whatever the larger cause it claims to serve.

The title archbishop, conferred by popes on metropolitans of particular note, took on connotations of spiritual authority, and the title metropolitan came to be regarded as being particularly associated with temporal authority.

Since jing takes on connotations of focus, concentration, and alertness, as well as reverence in Zhu Xi's discourses, mindfulness has been suggested as the English translation that covers the fullness of the term jing (Kalton 1988) in Zhu Xi's thought.

But muckraker also came to take on favourable connotations of social concern and courageous exposition.

In common language, the phrases "to look up to" and "to look down on" have connotations of admiration and condescension in addition to their obvious reference to physical viewpoint.

Yet we rarely reflect on the implicit connotations of jokes which rely on long-suffering white Brits, who are struggling to adapt to a changing world.

El Tajín's three major ball courts are remarkably important for the reliefs carved on their vertical playing surfaces, for these give valuable information on the religious connotations of the sacred game.

In that book, she ended with a lament for the loss of "wild time", and made a passing attack on the negative connotations of wilderness favoured by lexicographers; my dictionary gives "wild, uninhabited and uncultivated region", "desolate tract or area", "confused mass or collection".

There is another option, one that any self-respecting woman is entitled to pursue, and that is to turn the tables on the pejorative connotations of being a "cat lady" and to simply embrace it.

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?

"Territory" here takes on a darker connotation, of animals defending their turf or intruders altering pristine, primordial landscapes.