Sentence examples for with connotation from inspiring English sources

The left handles denotation, he clarifies, the right deals with connotation.

If the left hemisphere excelled at denotation — storing the primary meaning of a word — Jung-Beeman suspected that the right hemisphere dealt with connotation, everything that gets left out of a dictionary definition, such as the emotional charge in a sentence or a metaphor.

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(Then he added a line with connotations. "You must remember Sarah Hughes," he said).

With connotations of healthful living, mindfulness and self-improvement, yoga is a pretty appealing concept.

Mr. Stetson has arrived at an ingenious formulation, exploiting avant-garde jazz techniques but with connotations of accessible songcraft.

It can be freighted with connotations of mindless obscurantism – cf Gordon Brown's "bigoted woman" in the last election.

Some of the helping disciplines have gone to "client," impersonal and unsatisfactory with connotations both of commerce and dependency.

The word derives from the Latin verb conversari, which means to live together, with connotations of habitual proximity and coöperation.

The narrator mentions the word passeur which means "ferryman" or "smuggler," but with connotations of a guide.

He began his performance offstage, reading a poem called "Argobba," with connotations of ancestry and brain chemistry, punctuated here and there by guttural growls suggestive of throat singing.