Sentences with phrase «specific connotations»

Although she uses primitive rites and architecture as sources, her implementation of contemporary materials removes those specific connotations.

Halley began to use colors and materials with specific connotations, such as fluorescent Day - Glo paint, mimcking the eerie glow artificial lighting and reflective clothing and signs, as well as Roll - a-Tex, a texture additive used as surfacing in suburban buildings.

It remains to be seen how Cuomo can convince Senate Republicans, who hold a narrow majority in the chamber and have generally won support from the state's business interests, to back the wage hike, which through the campaign has had a specific connotation to $ 15.

Cagle says that, for some, «special education» has a specific connotation of always being able to provide for the severely disabled.

Though the word has a specific connotation to an American reader, jihad, as Bremer explains, means struggle.

«Into the Future,» the title of Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev's recent exhibition at Plus Ultra (their first solo show in New York) has a specific connotation in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, where the artists live and work.

Jack has seen how Agile makes Clio a better company, and understands its potential to reach «escape velocity» from its tech - specific connotation and become used more widely in the business and professional world.

Not exact matches

Blackmail has specific legal connotations and we regret using this word.

See «moron,» «idiot,» «retarded,» - which all originally had specific scientific meanings and connotations.

For his first public project in Detroit, Simmons created an immersive, environmental installation by wallpapering the the space with self - created musical fly posters that reference specific musical styles, as well as their attendant subcultures and sociopolitical connotations.

By changing specific images — Song landscape paintings, people - filled stadiums, goats — to something suggestive, these meticulously arranged compositions disrupt the picture plane and uncouple the connotations attached to these images.

As with the sexual connotations attributed to her earlier sculptures, however, the artist is suspicious of entertaining specific readings — and for that reason almost all of her work is untitled.

His conceptually and politically charged work varies from epic performances to meticulous drawings and collages and often involves finding new potential for objects with specific personal or cultural connotations.

Primarily known as a conceptual artist, Michael Landy's practice often involves finding new potential for objects with specific personal or cultural connotations.

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

Because many words in most languages carry a subtext or connotation, the use of one specific word often implies a reference to only the things described by that word.