Sentences with phrase «carries connotations»

-- that the word «underground» carries connotations of secrecy, subversion, and conspiracy.

The phrase «Chicago politics» carries connotations of a kind of insider dealing that the president would want to avoid in a year of anti-incumbency.

to a question of trust is faithful to the Bible itself, for the Hebrew word we translate as «truth» carries the connotations of «trustworthiness» or «steadiness» or «faithfulness.»

The word carries connotations of success, popularity, and glamour, as well as (more recently, I think) more than a touch of spoiled brattiness.

It usually carries the connotation of opposition to the natural or transcendence of the natural, and this implies various forms of limitation on the natural, including the suggestion that certain aspects of the one real world are not «natural».

The term «primordial» is frequently used by Whitehead in the sense of «underived» or «presupposed,» while consequent carries the connotation of «derived» or «resultant.»

When used in this way, it carries the connotation of mistreating someone or dragging them away for punishment (BAGD, 251).

The use of the term «soul» carries no connotation in Whitehead of preexistence or of life after death.

«Uniqueness» lacks the essential reference to time; «unrepeatability» bears a negative rather than a positive weight; «onceness» is strange, whereas Einmaligkeit is both a familiar word in German philosophy and also carries a connotation of positive worth.

Only in the context of this debate «different» here carries a connotation of being suited for different tasks.

Besides, the sentence that follows makes it clear that people do in fact misunderstand even if we strictly say that carries the connotation that they thought they understood.

Naturally, every behavior is mediated by the brain, but the language «brain disease» carries the connotation that the afflicted person is helpless before his own brain chemistry.

Readers of PLoS Blogs and the Web site Retraction Watch have argued that there is no need to retract papers with honest mistakes in them, and that the word retraction carries the connotation of scientific misconduct.

As in the basic term, as the dictionary defines it, doesn't carry the connotations you want it to have.

The perceptions... errr... no, that isn't correct because it carries the connotation one can perceive and clearly the person at games pew can not.

However, texture and brush - stroke carried connotations of the «handwriting» of Abstract Expressionism for Reinhardt.

«Here was a craft material with no art historical background that carried connotations of beauty,» says Lou in an e-mail.

It wasn't until Daumier's caricatural sculptures in the 19th century that the portrayal of a human being carried connotations beyond the psychological.

This, said the court, does not necessarily carry a connotation of coercion and might represent no more than «a strong form of request».

Not exact matches

In the business world, the phrase «going green» can carry some strong connotations, especially when it comes to hassle and cost.

At one time, the thought of dining solo carried with it a connotation of isolation, but it is now an accepted part of modern life, with 47 percent of all adult eating occasions occurring alone.

I realize some labels (the fourth one in particular) carry baggage or negative connotations for many people.

just because the label carries a negative connotation has no bearing on whether you fit into it or not.

But while failure carries with it a negative connotation, it can also act as a catalyst for many positive experiences.

Perhaps instead of virginity... or even purity (which carries something of an either / or connotation, I think)... we ought to talk about the path of holiness.

Words carry different connotations in different languages.

It has a connotation (again, in my experience) that doesn't really carry outside of the three Abrahamic faiths.

And although «gospel» almost universally today refers to good news about forgiveness of sin and the offer of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the word itself carries no such connotations.

I grant that the word «atonement» in some modern Christian contexts might carry some, if not all, of these connotations.

To be sure, the word «theology» does carry heavy negative connotations.

The Hebrew word for holiness, «kedushah,» carries with it a connotation of separateness or distinctiveness.

Restored houses of worship are strategic in that they carry so many connotations — ethnic, familial, congregational and personal.

For present purposes, the idea of perspective carries more appropriate connotations than the notion of hypotheses.

Part of the discussion was in the semantics, because the term fundamentalist / fundamentalism carries so much in its connotations.

However, singing carried a different connotation in that culture than it does today.

The idea of «sin» carries with it this connotation and helps us to make a point which we are sometimes obligated to make.

Though judgment carries negative connotations in our minds, the biblical concept of judgment is not always negative.

What is of immediate significance to us is that, in conceiving the physical existent as «matter,» seventeenth - century thought accepted and carried over as the essential connotation of «matter» (which is indeed grounded in the etymology of the term3) what it had been in the medieval epoch, namely of sheer passive potentiality.

The love of God, though it appears not infrequently in the Old Testament and in the rabbinical writings, there carries with it a connotation of God's love for the people Israel which was too small for Jesus.

The word «righteousness» carries numerous connotations.

He felt that it carries too restrictive a connotation and that it implies too passive an experience.

It is a fundamental human impulse to ground our vows in something greater than ourselves, which carries with it connotations of worship.

So the phrase carries with it the connotation of God having drawn near to man so as to grant him the experience of his direct, unmediated nearness.)

The very term «orthodoxy» carries with it connotations of conservative, even reactionary consolidation.

Gourmet carries additional connotations of one who simply enjoys taste in great quantities.

Gourmet carries additional connotations of one who simply enjoys food or coffee in great quantities.

Actually, I prefer not to think of any kind of foods as diet - y, low calorie, or even low fat, because those terms tend to carry negative connotations.

If you replace the word «carrying» with «amazing form» it pretty much says the same thing but with different connotations.

I think that there are plenty of parents who have the same sort of issues about nudity in front of their children, bathing with their children, kissing on the lips, rubbing or stroking backs and feet, playful nibbling of ears or anything else that might carry a sexual connotation to a particular person, however idiosyncratic.

That word, discipline, seems to carry some negative connotations.