These various opinions point to different conceptions of what constitutes greatness in poets, different connotations of "great poet".
It is necessary to remember that in the four decades before 1925, during which Sun Yat-sen advocated nationalism, the word had not acquired the ugly connotations that recent events have given it.
It is laden with a burden of connotations which it has acquired through the centuries; its variability of translation may be shown by the fact that, in the standard translations of the Chinese classics, it is written "Benevolence.
All drinkers begin socially, and this drinking is accompanied by a thousand social connotations such as I have described out of my own experience in the first part of this narrative.
These social connotations are the stuff of which the drink habit is largely composed.
Here were connotations of the saloon making deep indentations in a child's mind.
It would be interesting to go at some length into this question of romance, all its connotationsand implications.
Even "dramatic situation" is objectionable, because it has connotationsof the state, and suggests an acuteness and tensity, a general brevity and pitch of struggle that is not essential to fiction.
In particular, plot carries too many connotations of mere complication, which is not one of its essential qualities.
Its connotations cannot be misunderstood by any one who takes the word in its literal meaning.
It may be legitimate and useful, but a watchword easily changes its meaning and takes up foreign connotations or fallacious suggestions.
In no primitive or half-civilization does the word "wife" bear the connotations which it bears to us.
Two or more terms whose connotations severally include that of another term, whilst at the same time exceeding it, are (in relation to that other term) called Co-ordinate.
But terms used in popular discourse should, as far as possible, have their connotations determined by classical usage, i.
These are called Relative Terms, and their nature, as explained by Mill, is that the connotations of the members of such a pair or group are derived from the same set of facts (the fundamentum relationis).
But in assuming any attitude towards mathetic propositions, especially with a view to demonstrating their actuality, very careful discrimination as to the essential qualities and their connotationsshould be made.
There are connotations about the word challenge which are essentially dramatic.
The connotations of the name court are generally impressive.
In most philosophical discussions a great deal of loose phraseology is used, in order to find the proper connotations of which we must go back to primitive and untutored ages.
It is highly desirable that physics should have a word as thoroughly abstract, as utterly emptied of all connotations of personality, as possible, so that it may be used like a mathematical symbol.
Their connotations are unlike in the two languages; and the translation which is made literally exact by using them is at the same time made actually inaccurate, or at least inadequate.
By its diffuse connotationsthe word smarrita calls up in our minds an adequate picture of the bewilderment and perplexity of one who is lost in a trackless forest.
Yankee, Southerner, Westerner, Californian, Texan, each type provokes certain connotations of humor when viewed by any of the other types.
In the eyes of the newspaper paragrapher it unquestionably is, just as Missouri has more humorous connotations than Kentucky.
The term is fundamentally untranslatable, but if the tribunician connotations of Censor or the emergency meaning of Control be recalled, either of these terms will serve.
That city had been the capital of the ill-fated Wu-han Kuomintang-Communist government, which fell with the secession of Chiang to Nanking eleven years before; its connotations still lingered.
Furthermore, the Chinese version of patriotism has more cosmopolitan and fewer restrictive connotations than patriotism ever had in the West.
The supreme Chinese leader they called the emperor, despite the inevitable Caesarian connotations of the term and the fact that it erased the peculiar significance of the Chinese title.
Things of this sort had begun to happen rapidly, but it was not the things themselves, but the connotations of them, that almost stunned him.
Its effect was electrical, for on the instant all the connotations of "Michael" flooded his consciousness.
He stacked his notes and began making lists, checking through the sheets of paper for repetitions of words Easton had used, listing the various connotations which had occurred to Jonathan while he had listened to the tapes.
Jonathan's trained ear remembered the pronunciation of "Freeble" in the three different connotationsand he forced himself to admit it was the same on all three tapes in question.
These connotations introduce into the Masai ‘system’ a discordant principle by which relatives, instead of being defined descriptively, are grouped together in classes.
But the argument fails where similar connotations of terms occur without evidence of the marriage rule unless it can be demonstrated that no other cause could have produced the result.
She caught glimmerings of profounds inexpressible and unthinkable that hinted connotations lawless and terrible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connotations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
