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.
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.
These slightly creepy elongated profiles, whose connotations take on the unfortunate realities of our time, are paradoxically festive, as if they could be paraded in the streets as holiday banners held up by their supportive poles.
Like the Buena Vista Social Club from Cuba, she now carries forward music from a prerevolutionary era that has taken on new connotations.
Republican political consultants have found that in an era of plunging stocks and corporate scandal the word "privatization" has taken on negative connotations.
A. Although the term "hacker" has taken on negative connotations, it was once a flattering label reserved for those who could appreciate, operate and program computers.
"Transcultural is another word for multicultural, which some critics feel has taken on pejorative connotations since the culture wars of the early 1990's," Ms. Nazario said.
