Sentence examples for subtle connotations from inspiring English sources

They also have subtle connotations.

A post-it pad can contain the core idea, but the subtle connotations which often include the most interesting and also important points tend to be trimmed out from the post-it pads.

;)" can carry the subtle connotation that you'll be thinking about them (and possibly vice versa).

However, if the economic problems of the black community are defined exclusively in terms of race, they can be isolated and seen as requiring only race-specific solutions, as proposed by the political left, or narrow political solutions with subtle racial connotations (like welfare reform), as trumpeted by the right.

It is no wonder that the puritan Anglo-Saxon Protestant fathers were deeply offended by the Maypole ceremony, with its not-so-subtle sexual connotations and pagan sensibilities.

Of course, the puritan Anglo-Saxon Protestant fathers were deeply offended by the Maypole ceremony, with its not-so-subtle sexual connotations and pagan sensibilities.

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

These paintings are notable for their subtle harmonies of cool and pastel colours and for the mechanistic connotations of their monumental shapes.

As the images were beamed around the world, the colour was being described by many commentators as gold, with all the regal connotations of that colour; the New York Times, however, judged it to be the rather more subtle and sophisticated shade of lemon grass.

And remember, connotations evolve.

Not very nice connotations.