Sentence examples for precise connotation from inspiring English sources

This rather vague use of saga is best avoided, however, since the word can more usefully retain the precise connotation of its original context.

They were there to lend precise daubs of color and connotation to songs that dreamed their way across a panorama of American music.

Based on Link's interdiscourse theory, we argue that risk matrices 'speak to' the user and work as application templates for processes of identification through semantic connotations and analogies that go far beyond concerns with precise measurement and mathematically correct manipulation of risk-related data.

Some words have particularly strong connotations; you should strive to use words that are as precise and dispassionate as possible, such as "divergent thinker" instead of "crackpot".

The exact meaning of the word is rarely deducible from even a clearly recognizable picture, because the connotations are either too broad or too narrow for the word's precise meaning.

The term has a positive connotation only in literature; pre-Islāmic Arabic poetry is esteemed by Muslims for its precise and rich vocabulary, sophisticated metrical structures, and fully developed systems of rhyme and thematic sequence.

"The connotation, mainly, is crime".

"Basement has an ugly connotation".

The proper connotation is Joe Sixpack.

It has a valedictory connotation.

"It has that connotation of being bad".