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The mystical connotations of Bohm's ideas are underlined by his remark that the implicate domain "could equally well be called Idealism, Spirit, Consciousness.

These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface.

Nelson's urge to enter the public arena was partly the legacy of his father, whose Rockefeller Foundation helped create the modern science of philanthropy, though its underlying purpose was to expunge the malevolent connotations attached to the name of Rockefeller in the wake of the predations of the Standard Oil trust.

Whatever else may be said about them, both "Talmudic" and "Jesuitical" carry connotations of great learning and meticulous attention to argument.

Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running shoe: "Incubus.

At a press conference this fall, Brad Pitt declared: "You say 'Nazi,' and all these connotations like concentration camps come up.

The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.

I think the reason "there you go" has no such unpleasant connotations is that it describes, in the retail context, the state in which the customer finds him- or herself after successful completion of the purchase.

That is, if you are going to say something about people, then avoid using the word man (for example) because, regardless of the ancillary definitions one might find in the dictionary, in its most common meaning and use it denotes `male' and the strong connotations of that denotation are carried over to all other applications of the word: it is not, in fact, as neutral as some believe it to be.

When Nields used proceeds , he was passing up a chance to irritate or challenge North, for the connotations are completely different.

ROUNDABOUT with its fairground connotations has superseded CIRCUS but ZEBRAS, PANDAS, and PELICANS still have their CROSSINGS.

The words proscribed by the old production codes were swearing or profanity in the true sense, with purely spiritual connotations in their reference to the Deity.

In the last analysis, it makes little difference how sterile, clinical, or innocuous the words selected might be, for the terminology attracts adverse connotations owing to many factors, not the least of which is prejudice.

11] The dispreferred expression may be taboo, fearsome, distasteful, or for some other reason have too many negative connotations to felicitously execute Speaker's particular communicative intention on a given occasion.

Turning to dysphemism , the authors provide the following definition: an expression with connotations that are offensive either about the denotatum or to the audience, or both, and it is substituted for a neutral or euphemistic expression for just that reason.

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