Connotation Quotes

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.

Diva has a negative connotation.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty.