While students of totalitarianism talked of terrorism as its method of rule, representatives of totalitarian regimes, sensitive to the pejorative connotation of the word, portrayed the practice as defense of the state from internal enemies.
West's emphasis on the need for President Obama to show courage and back bone is quite telling coming from one sensitive to the negative connotation of Black male fecklessness and how its been used as a trope throughout strategic points in American history.
Our research programme on fee exemption policies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger involved sensitive topics with strong ideological and political connotations for the decision-makers, for health-workers, and for users.
One participant who completed the English language version indicated that the wording was suggestive and intoned that the individual had colon cancer, which was a culturally sensitive issue for those who believed there were connotations to being diagnosed.
As [R] was considered a new realization of /dz/ likely arising from Mandarin negative transfer (Chen 陳雅玲 2010, 2012; Chuang and Fon 2017), a negative connotation might have been attached, to which female speakers are more sensitive than their male counterparts [cf. Labov (1990), Maclagan et al. (1999), Trudgill (2000)].
"The word 'sensitive' also can have a negative connotation to people, but when you really think about the word sensitive, what does it really mean?
Individuals are extremely sensitive in judging motivations: a greeting kiss, if protracted more than a second or two, takes on a sexual connotation, and recent studies show that if an adult male at a party stands closer than the length of his hand and forearm to a female, she generally imputes a sexual motive to his proximity.
And remember, connotations evolve.
Not very nice connotations.
Because umlauts have connotations.
