Sentence examples for the phrase's connotation from inspiring English sources

In political and journalistic use, the phrase's connotation is accusatory: today's question, "Where is your exit strategy?" connotes "How do you plan to get us out of this mess at a date certain?" In his answer, Rumsfeld chose to counter that polemical connotation by defining the mission not as exit but as success.

Always questioned the phrase's negative connotation by depicting girls fighting, running and throwing like capable athletes.

In fact, the phrase's negative connotations are undeserved.

Nuit Blanche is French for "white night," but the festival that goes by that name prefers the phrase's "all-nighter" connotation.

Today, it undeniably is, but not in the schoolbook sense of the phrase, with its connotation of two tidily opposed sides — Yanks and Rebs squaring off at Antietam.

The country didn't gain independence until 1978, so when the returnees are accused of "acting English", the phrase has connotations that go beyond geography.

However, when used in the UK, the phrase has connotations of suspected colorectal cancer over and above its literal meaning: the specific codes for constipation and diarrhoea were used instead.

"I have since learned that the phrase has racist connotations.

The phrase has unfortunate connotations as the former Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, promised he was "turning up the volume" shortly before quitting.

It comes as the opposition leader, Michael Gunner, issues an apology for saying Giles was "off the reservation", claiming he was unaware the phrase had racist connotations.

In the literature about Phinney, no one ever calls him a "control freak"—I guess because the phrase has negative connotations.