Sentence examples for usual connotation from inspiring English sources

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Just as Stein robs words of their usual connotation, Ashton uses ballet steps in isolated units here to create meaning remote from their usual associations.

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Forget the usual connotations of the turkey -- or forget most of them.

Quite different from the usual connotations borne by the term epicurean today, life in the house and garden was simple.

Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel in red trouser suits; Michelle Obama in lipstick-hued Jason Wu at her second inauguration ball: the usual connotations don't stick.

I don't know if it's the same in Greek, but in French, en secret is a loaded phrase, with the usual connotations of "secret", but also of "in solitary confinement", which seems apt for the poetry of a man who spent a good part of his life resisting fascism, sometimes in prison.

But the very definition of a refugee, an asylum seeker or a migrant, takes on more than the usual connotations in a country burdened by a history of sectarianism, political and economic uncertainty, feudal patronage, and more.

He considered the episode to have "dropped in posthaste behind Monk", but that it "didn't have its usual negative connotation this week... at least, not in full force".

Suggested by Skoolyad A product of the surreal chemistry between director Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman, who co-wrote the script, the beach becomes a peculiar hinterland, shorn of its usual hedonistic connotations.

Its connotation is usually negative.

It turns out that it comes from farbissen, which — as is typical in Yiddish — has connotations that go beyond its usual translation as "bitter".

Patients with T1DM and T2DM followed by group care used mostly positive concepts, whereas those followed by usual care expressed mostly concepts with negative connotations.

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