Sentences with phrase «connotation as»

I must admit the title of your post made me smile - does the word «swinging» have the same connotation as it does over here in the U.K?

So using «acidification» to indicate a decrease in pH, particularly from a current «normal» state, seems correct and with an important connotation as well.

Is it only good or bad luck, or does the word «luck» shift in connotation as the novel goes forward?

It does however have a negative connotation as well.

In the hierarchy of academic disciplines, the label «career prep» has a connotation as being lesser than «college prep.»

I refuse to use the word splurge because I think that has a negative connotation as being an unnecessary purchase.

Despite its negative connotation as the «stress hormone,» cortisol is actually not a bad thing.

The term «difficult» has a negative connotation as it overlooks what are often valuable behavioural traits: assertiveness, persistence and decisiveness.

Human rights have recently been extended far beyond their earlier connotation as duties «owed» to individuals by a national government or, at least, by the community.

The word «bed» doesn't have the same connotation as we think of a bed.

So here's the question: Do you think that «evangelicalism» is beginning to take on the same negative connotation as «fundamentalism»?

Therefore, it is concerned as much with how words make us feel as their exact meaning — their connotation as much as denotation.

Few words in political parlance became so laden with historical connotations as this one did.

Unfortunately, these words sometimes have negative connotations as well as multiple meanings.

Python too for its digital connotations as a programming language, as these works are very much about architecture in the age of AutoCAD, history paintings rendered on monumental monitors.

The titles of his works often create playful connotations as signifiers to specific places or times, thus becoming clues to decoding the work.

Musical instruments can be seen as extensions of the body, and her works explores their structures, systems and cultural connotations as well as acoustic qualities.

BTW, Dr. C, the word «robust» in the sceptical blogosphere has very negative connotations as a result of its overuse in ProAGW literature.

Not exact matches

The promotion embraces the discounts as a way to «score» at their stores and has a playful connotation that stands out against a regular $ 40 off coupon.

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

As it happens, Marvel briefly changed the name of the character to Black Leopard to avoid confusing connotations with the militant party.

«I didn't think of it as a sabbatical, because a sabbatical has a connotation that you go away and you're going to come back and do the same thing,» he says.

These synonyms have positive connotations but the reality is that accomplishment as a feeling, is fleeting.

And while the term still has negative connotations when used as a noun (as in, «Oh no!

«I believe organisations need to set targets related to gender diversity, as opposed to quotas which have more negative connotations linked to positive discrimination.

The term has a negative connotation - as if something improper is being done.

Harrison used the employee magazine as his communication tool to impart his vision and strategic orientations and broadcast the results obtained since the leadership change (and always makes sure to give a positive connotation to the word «change»).

(I would hesitate to call the Pentecostal concern for the poor «social justice,» as Smith does, since the term has political connotations that may or may not apply to Pentecostals.)

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

I can't say I understand the Z of Z theory, or the theoretical approach you are taking, but I'm interested — as one who values argument (from arg — to shine, build up a shared «shine» — initially argument had positive connotation) I am impressed by the gap separating the «good» that we know and can say, and yet are unable to practice.

For example, I refer to the Judeo - Christian god as a sky fairy (although I think I like sky wizard better — it has the whole magic old man connotation to it) but I don't for example, say you believe in any other god.

Perhaps because the connotations of the word «malaise» are different in French and in English, perhaps because the word is virtually unusable in this context in the United States so soon after Jimmy Carter, and surely because Taylor expressly frames his book as a continuation of the inquiry nobly undertaken by Lionel Trilling in his Norton Lectures at Harvard under the title Sincerity and Authenticity, the American edition has been entitled The Ethics of Authenticity.

It has the advantage of transcending the purely negative connotations of nontemporality: Eternity is not simply the negation of time with reference to God, but rather the arena of his full, majestic, unimaginably rich and overflowing life as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

If one accepts the word God with its usual conventional connotations and traditional meanings, then the answer is No, as Schweitzer himself made clear.

But if the past is real only as it is given reality by the present, most of the connotations of «cause» can not apply to it.

The term fundamentalism evolved from there, and as we all know, has taken on an extremely negative connotation.

Even when later connotations began to appear, the earlier ones persisted, as Joshua's words reveal: «Ye can not serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God.»

«Evangelical,» for whatever reason, has an extremely negative connotation for me... (as we have discussed so often on this blog!)

Terms such as «feminine vocation» or «femininity,» which Christians use as alternatives to «feminism,» have a connotation of docility and passiveness that fails to describe the women we most admire, whether in Wilder's time or in our own.

Nonetheless, though «entity» and «being» do not have exactly the same connotation or intention, they do have the same denotation or extension; for the actuality as in process of attainment, and the actuality as attained, are one and the same entity (PR 326f).

Like most moderns, I once thought all the connotations of «discipline» were about what parents and teachers did to you when you failed to conduct yourself as they thought you should.

This felt contrast between solitariness and community is the empirical datum which underlies the multitude of religious symbols, such as creation, incarnation, resurrection, nirvana, samsara, moksha, tao, wu - wei, t» ien, each of them, in their wide variety of forms and connotations, pointing to some aspect of organic life together.

No linguistic formulation can be free of all discursive content; the question, though, is precisely which nuance, from among all the various connotations any formulation necessarily suggests, is to be seen as determinative.

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.»

It is probable, for example, that the word has a different connotation in Jonah than it does in a technical priestly handbook such as Leviticus.

Of course, all of this depends on what you would define as sinful (though I would say «harmful» instead of sinful, as sinful tends to have a bad connotation).

I have always assumed that «soul» and «heart», as we use the terms today, in a religious discussion, have religious connotations.

His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.

Once puberty hit, this took on sexual connotations, as Chris began experiencing «eroticized desire» for traits he found in other males that he himself lacked.

«Cold» has strange connotations in Christian terminology, but if you think of «drinks» as the imagery suggests, then there is nothing wrong with a cold drink.