quotes about Connotation
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
-- Abdolkarim SoroushSource : "Abdolkarim Soroush: The goals of Iran's Green Movement". Interview with Robin Wright, www.csmonitor.com. January 6, 2010.
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While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.
-- Charles M. BlowSource : Charles M. Blow (2014). “Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.
-- Donald Glover -
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.
-- Francis Collins -
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
-- Laura Kightlinger -
When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.
-- Matt RossSource : Source: collider.com
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The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
-- Simon BlackburnSource : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
-- Toni Morrison -
Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.
-- Eric AbetzSource : Source: www.abc.net.au