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"The problem is that so many things have political connotations, and the connotations are in the eye of the beholder," he continued.
It's interesting here that Republicans tended to use words that have more positive connotations, while Democrats often chose synonyms with more negative connotations.
It may have something to do with their throwback connotations.
As Stay Hipp notes, it has cutesy, sexual connotations too.
O doesn't have those same positive connotations in the West.
Of course, the fabric will always have its traditional connotations.
"There are meanings and connotations behind each," Flower told Refinery29.
"You have these negative connotations to being ambitious," she said.
Do you think the term conspiracy theorist has negative connotations?
Boxes of wine don't necessarily tote the most elevated connotations.
It has connotations of the fringe, rather than the center.
For some, the word "feminist" is loaded with connotations of radicalism.
Globally, this became "ghetto", with its infamous connotations through the centuries.
Like I said, it's all about symbols and the closest connotations.
But the bluesy connotations of his feverish harmonic auroras remained unique.
The imagery conjures up all kinds of unpleasant connotations: Pinocchio, snakes
"The media loves 'polyamory' because of the emotional connotations," he says.
What political connotations do you see in house and techno music?
For example, the word "fascism" has deep emotional connotations for me.
Is the resting bitch face a gendered concept with misogynistic connotations?
"I'm obsessed with Halloween and the metaphysical connotations it has," she said.
Separate from Fridays, 13 took on negative connotations during the Last Supper.
Retro connotations are rooted in his mother's love of 60s vocal groups.
So, why does "single on Valentine's Day" still carry loser-ish connotations?
Greenblatt said he immediately recognized the anti-Semitic connotations the graphic evoked.
Outside of its religious connotations, it stands for the progress of man.
It's an apt song for more than just its obvious breakup connotations.
Meanwhile, the terms "fast casual" or "fast service" have totally different connotations.
The word "filibuster" has always conjured up in my mind negative connotations.
It also has a lot of connotations Amazon would like to avoid.
Reflective surfaces can suggest connotations of perception, of seeing and being seen.
Nonetheless, neither Fretz nor Oh thought twice about negative connotations with cannabis.
García Márquez has used the Spanish word here with all its connotations.
The issue with communicating things online is the evolving nature of connotations.
He stands between marble columns, drawing up connotations of towering marble men.
Their aims are well-defined and, for all Brexit's parochial connotations, their
She claimed to have been unaware of the connotations of the signal.
These terms have negative connotations and they put blame on the user.
Indeed, our only words for non-parents either have negative connotations—e.g.
They also avidly avoid the socialist label because of its negative connotations.
In multiple East Asian cultures, this has connotations of death and funerals.
Gold is not as glamorous as the glittering connotations its name evokes.
In Upper Egypt, it replaced fellahin , or "peasants," which had negative connotations.
Slick is one of those evocative words with multiple (and opposing) connotations.
The color still carries its own set of connotations, even in 2019.
Other items' connotations are, if not outright negative, a little more pointed.
Sports items with such negative connotations are rare at auctions, Goldin said.
"The birch tree has martyrological connotations in local [Polish] culture," Cichocki explained.
If people just reinforce the negative connotations around it then it's really dangerous.
The title was perceived by some on campus as having connotations of slavery.
Samat calls it the "decomposition of apps," though without the connotations of death.
FUCT, it said, was "highly offensive" and "vulgar" with "decidedly negative sexual connotations".
They developed their own connotations, nuances, innuendos — some seemingly accidental, others slyly intentional.
He says the rise of "sexbots" particularly has given the sculptures new connotations.
"Well, it has certain connotations," Michael persists, really putting his foot in it.
Especially in her teens, being a slightly chubby girl can have positive connotations.
Many connotations and stereotypes still exist about the arrested development of gamer culture.
Akerman struggled with the connotations that come with being labeled a feminist filmmaker.
So while the connotations were a bit muddled, at least they were memorable.
The sexual and marijuana connotations of the figure have a very simple purpose.
The "death is elsewhere" refrain in the song suddenly assumes dramatic historical connotations.
An exhibition meditates on blue's various connotations and how it manifests in politics.
Its origin is ignored, and its connotations slur whole swaths of our country.
Linking the connotations of collaboration and cross-compatibility, they named the engine Unity.
But for some people, the wine itself matters as much as the connotations.
By addressing the archetype of home, political connotations are dispersed among viewers, not defanged.
But politicians have twisted its connotations into a tool for general stigmatization and exclusion.
Its name is Jonas, which, Weezer connotations aside, honestly doesn't sound all that threatening.
Google, Snapchat, Yahoo and Tribune all have connotations of being either problematic or outdated.
"Cognitive behavioural therapy", which teaches people to bypass unhelpful thoughts, has few negative connotations.
For decades, feminists have expanded its connotations beyond the idea of "hatred of women".
Realize all the charges and connotations it has in it, just make responsible choices.
It may have some bad connotations but let's be real, it is fucking delicious.
Among them are the religious and historical connotations attached to the institution of marriage.
For whatever reasons, these potential complications seem to raise negative connotations for many voters.
Jianguo laughed when he told me; his guards were oblivious of any Orwellian connotations.
Some, like the National Rugby Association, or N.R.A., were red-carded for unwanted connotations.
Or perhaps spectacle isn't the right word, as that can has some positive connotations.
Even the language I'm using now — words like "expose" and "disclose" — carry negative connotations.
Still, the label "writer's writer," with its connotations of mere technical prowess, doesn't fit.
To her, Nut was simply a horizontal and a vertical figure, without spiritual connotations.
The historical connotations are unpleasant; Norwegians have been praised for our "ethnic purity" before.
Mr. Trump has said he was familiar with the negative connotations of the phrase.
"Maybe Palantir didn't really think through the connotations that come with that," Ellis said.
"Anything that's not necessary has the potential to take on additional connotations," she said.
Some of them seem to have dubious connotations: a knife, an ambulance, a scorpion.
By the mid-'90s, the word had lost its positive connotations with many Americans.
It has deep connotations that speak for constituents on both sides of the aisle.
The amount of words with positive connotations dropped from 2628 percent to 28503 percent.
In this case, the memes used had connotations we were unaware of until now.
" He claimed the connotations had not occurred to him because his "mind (is) not diseased.
We're all familiar with the phrase "sleep like a baby," which generally has positive connotations.
Distinct from the standard usage of "lingdao" for leader, "lingxiu" evokes grander, almost spiritual, connotations.
Eccentricity is a quality that can take on wildly different connotations based on its context.
Emoji, with their ever-evolving connotations and dramatic variation in appearance, present a unique challenge.
The title Uprising has clear political connotations and provides further clues to understanding the exhibition.
For as long as we can remember, velvet's held strong to its holiday-season connotations.
"It carries racial connotations when used while addressing an adult black male," the attorneys write.
This language, and its connotations, has been chronicled over the years by wary health providers.
Mainly, the negative connotations of water crossings are what make the lessons here so important.
Dr. Wehmeyer said the change made an important break from the connotations of past terminology.
Each work in this show is rich in connotations, though not always easy to absorb.
It was my editor's idea, and I think it's great because it had two connotations.
R. Calling something "readable" can have negative connotations, but it's still hard to pull off!
If one looks closely, however, other connotations are possible, such as abundance, efficiency or receptivity.
But they initially made few inroads in a market where supermarkets can carry class connotations.
While the term carries negative connotations, some inflation is regarded as good for the economy.
While they have connotations of being prim and proper, this season they were anything but.
And no clothing, which can bring in local connotations that interfere with a character's identity.
You don't see a lot of Confederate flags or symbols that have white pride connotations.
The old-fashioned term "jet set," with its connotations of glamorous indolence, doesn't quite fit.
Despite the aesthetic nature of her compositions, Baremboym chooses her materials for their conceptual connotations.
I amend it with all of the positive connotations of risk taking and mischief making.
They are the most convincing when the surface and aesthetics are uncompromised by religious connotations.
And 'porn' is a word with so many negative connotations, of sexism and aggression towards women.
That's not just because of the Death Star's evil connotations, but due to obvious design flaws.
The idea of following someone isn't a construction of the internet, but its connotations are new.
However, that put newbie users unaware of the egg's connotations at a disadvantage on the platform.
In this campy landscape, "stan," with its original connotations of psychosis, wasn't a term of denigration.
The second half of wholesomeness's journey came next, after those new connotations had been well established.
But given the increased negative connotations associated with lobbyists, reports show that fewer people are registering.
Swedes attach negative connotations to jantelagen and believe it to have an adverse influence on creativity.
The lava-lamp format and shake-to-blend oil formula were new, but the "juicy" connotations?
Whether intentionally or not, the next iOS has stripped the food of its previous sexual connotations.
Daum says the phrase "social credit," has different connotations in English that it does in Chinese.
The symbolism of the bird, and its associated connotations of freedom, flying away, is very prevalent.
Tax resisting has been around for as long as this country, though it has many connotations.
For what it's worth, the word "emo" means absolutely nothing other than the connotations it carries.
It's a long, uncommitted flick of the hand with a heap of connotations attached to it.
But Israelis overwhelmingly disapproved, noting that this term had the same negative connotations, and suggested alternatives.
That is a little embarrassing to admit, with its connotations of Scooby-Doo and alien abductions.
The keywords include curses, statements about physical and mental states, and words with additional sexual connotations.
But yeah, plantation... the slave connotations don't sound so lovely; can't wait to go there, not!
But in today's political climate, "establishment" carries negative connotations, which is what has many progressives riled.
This compensatory behavior might be taken simply as materialist consumption if not for its racialized connotations.
Other pejorative terms have been removed from government documents as people better understood the hurtful connotations.
It's another example of fears and connotations — what wine signifies — triumphing over honest expressions of tastes.
"Addiction" is a term with loaded connotations, but my obsession with streaming felt like a dependency.
It's difficult to imagine that Ginger would have been unaware of its racially provocative connotations, though.
For instance, we never use the word "drugs," as it has negative connotations in many languages.
So I don't have a problem with that label, but I don't like some of its connotations.
The traditional home remedies, and negative connotations, didn't motivate the daughter to open up to her mother.
The term "culture" can have some problematic connotations when applied to who is suited for a job.
Ellis adds that her attitude helped people let go of the negative connotations between queerness and athleticism.
"It has all these connotations, but it's just an extended period of talking about yourself," he said.
There is also some debate over whether this planet is Earth-like, which comes with some connotations.
On top of the cultural connotations, many of these posts are full of things that cost money.
More traditional candidates who don't threaten the capitalist structure are presented positive or neutrally, without devaluing connotations.
So Passiflora, or the passionfruit flower, is an example of a plant that took on holy connotations.
"Of course it's understandable, considering the Victorian-slash-Imperial connotations, but we're very inclusive," he says again.
Given its belligerent and aggressive connotations, martial imagery on club badges is perhaps the hardest to miss.
The title of captain on Team USA's basketball team comes with some complicated connotations in today's America.
It was these negative connotations that initially made me very uncomfortable with the show's casting of Bilquis.
Soon as those good enough to point out it's possible connotations got in touch, down it came.
Because there's a lot of negative connotations being associated with it on a more toxic fandom level.
On Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh steered away from the idea that the yearbook reference had any sexual connotations.
Just like the word "single," I don't think the term "Third Wheel" should have negative connotations anymore.
All three of our menswear experts agreed that the fedora, despite being a classic, holds terrible connotations.
Ignoring this mundane origin, however, psychologists have fallen in love with the moral connotations of this emotion.
It is a word with intrinsically negative connotations that is generally applied to one's enemies and opponents.
Granny connotations aside, the classic mineral compound "works by inhibiting muscle contractions and relaxing muscles," she says.
"'Come on You Whites' can have racial connotations,'" a DMV official wrote in a letter sent Kotler.
Cardi B defended herself, saying it was a common term in the Bronx, with no racist connotations.
The connotations of the word "hacker" have darkened, and so, perhaps, have perceptions of the digital future.
But wine has its seasonal connotations as well, and I imagine many people would prefer a red.
"We probably didn't think enough about the connotations of the word 'hacking,' which implies intentions," he says.
The phrase has been scrubbed clean of the "fake gamer" connotations it had when it was coined.
But "naturism," with its Thoreauvian connotations of fresh air and vigor, seems preferred among the true believers.
There's something about the woven or braided upper that carries connotations of ease, simplicity, and most crucially, vacation.
He did not address why the team decided on the name despite already knowing about the negative connotations.
Simon Green: If you had called an album Migration five years ago, it would have had different connotations.
It's sort of like a coffee break or afternoon tea in England, but with much greater social connotations.
I like that name, I don't hate it, but it has masculine connotations, so I just feminized it.
If Apple followed my advice, the word "courage" would definitely apply — likely with the same connotations as before.
Some people might use the word "arranged," but that has a number of connotations I'd like to avoid.
For this reason, I call myself "unhoused" instead of homeless, as the term is loaded with derisive connotations.
First is a series of leftie cultural references that carry, in an American context, all kinds of connotations.
Diva is perhaps more commonly used, but it carries the same connotations: demanding, self-important, famous — and female.
The dance has not always been synonymous with everything sensual and seductive, yet these connotations aren't completely unfounded.
There are subtle differences in the connotations of these expressions, but they all refer to the same phenomenon.
However, with the connotations around red being the color of love, they're proving particularly popular as engagement rings.
Criticizing Medicaid as a welfare program gone amok illustrates how words have been weaponized, focusing on negative connotations.
"The wider connotations of falling down this path don't bear thinking about," says Steve Barrow at Standard Bank.
" He said the word carries unfair and unproven criminal connotations suggesting that Manafort was "associated with despicable people.
Disability often comes with connotations of tragedy and loss, but how do you miss something you never had?
Barbecue ribs, corn bread, collard greens, and two beverages with racist connotations: Kool-Aid and watermelon-flavored water.
The boy's given name is Icare, the French version of Icarus, which has some pretty heavy mythological connotations.
But even in Japan, the dunes are more famous for their literary connotations than as a travel destination.
Words with negative connotations are the ones we choose when speaking about success in the social media world.
"Human skin colors are hard to pin down and they have a lot of emotional connotations," he said.
It repeatedly denounces human rights and environmental activism as "anti-national" — a phrase that carries connotations of treason.
The 2010s was the decade that wellness shed its fringe, hippie-dippy connotations and exploded into mainstream consciousness.
Beyond the sexual and racial connotations here, Scott offers sublime and transcendent experiences in this body of work.
Sweets have invaded the English language the way they have invaded our diet, with almost universally positive connotations.
Their customs have also been targeted, with bans on beards or even giving children names with religious connotations.
He explored the connotations of the word blindness—there binary concepts of light and dark; insight and ignorance.
"I felt that there was a lot of negative connotations with not being a US citizen," Solano Suarez said.
Scholars may tut-tut about the historical connotations of 'America First,' but the basic sentiment needs to be endorsed.
Of course, referring to a person struggling with mental health as an "alien" has some hefty negative connotations — i.e.
I love Tevas, unironically, and I've always wanted to wear Uggs, but couldn't get past the Starbucks-girl connotations.
The word "basic" may have negative connotations these days, but this is one straightforward essential we can get behind.
The definition of the English word "meek" produces numerous connotations that simply cannot be associated with the nickname Valhalla.
If they had, it would have revealed all the unflattering connotations that come along with the three-letter moniker.
Ketamine, with its associations with war zone surgery and large animals that need immediate taming, carries heavy-duty connotations.
" Facebook then acknowledges that "In fact, some white nationalists carefully avoid the term supremacy because it has negative connotations.
But the default brush is "light," which despite its Thomas Kinkade-esque connotations is actually thin strings of neon.
I prefer the term "marathon" — fewer negative connotations — but I think I've lost this battle, so binge it is.
But the craving of earth, rarely carries with it the connotations of mental illness, although it can be stigmatizing.
Ms Cartier Brickell is alert to their diverse connotations, from love letter to grovelling apology to glaring status symbol.
"I had everything from flying saucers, to religious connotations and the Rapture, to the Russians are attacking," he said.
Perdue, a former Georgia governor, may or may not have been aware of, and intentionally drawing on, these connotations.
Have you been affected by American projections of Asian men as 'effeminate' and the negative connotations in the US?
This is purposeful; it helps the individualist connotations of the mechanics portrayed to be reflected in the contextual narrative.
The goal is to have a buffet without any of the physical or cultural connotations of the American buffet.
Scholars may tut-tut about the historical connotations of "America First," but the basic sentiment needs to be endorsed.
Listing a castle "brings in all these Disney, neo-Arthurian fantasy connotations that we don't want," Mr. Braunholtz said.
He said he created a presence on Facebook to mobilize the existing community and reverse the label's negative connotations.
Parsing a term heavy with connotations is "hard work" said Cameron Barr, a managing editor at The Washington Post.
A professor of medieval history and symbology expert, Pastoureau is an adept and lucid guide to yellow's mutable connotations.
Sometimes people, primed to find signs of tendentiousness, read meanings or connotations into words that the writer never intended.
The term 'spying' has all kinds of negative connotations and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately.
Officials have banned beards, religious instruction of children and even the granting of names with religious connotations to children.
In 1919, jazz, or "jass," as some still called it, was a peculiar word with musical and sexual connotations.
But suddenly, Girl Ultra takes over and she adds one last observation–-complete with its Cronenberg-esque sci-fi connotations.
Some have very different connotations in a new era and changing Democratic Party than they did when he made them.
But major firms in other sectors have kept their distance, worried by the connotations of involvement with a banned substance.
For example, meat, dairy, and eggs industries have infamously dirty connotations, owing to their production's close proximity to literal shit.
For its 63-year anniversary, his new production at HERE Arts Center imbues Berlioz's score swith metaphysical and abstract connotations.
Maybe not so much with the "hemp sack" connotations, but certainly in our lack of understanding what they actually mean.
Riley chose horses because of the cultural connotations, using the animals association with labor, domestication, and racism as a motif.
Some on Weibo, a microblogging site, thought it sounded old-fashioned and awkward, others that it had connotations of furniture.
Jaehaerys would be a good pick as the name isn't associated with any real negative connotations, like Aerys, Maegor, etc.
Once Jughead accuses Betty of only being with him "until Archie changes his mind," this fight takes on different connotations.
The word "feminist" has myriad connotations and as a result, many girls and women are hesitant to embrace the label.
For many, "going out" is where all the fun happens, whereas "staying in" has anti-social, sometimes even depressive connotations.
But negative connotations didn't stop the Oxford Dictionary from using "rabid feminists" in an example sentence on the word's entry.
That led Mr. Thibodeau to conclude that for those people moist had taken on the connotations of a bodily function.
Castaldo says he thinks the real producers of the video chose his company's name because of its hopeful, inspirational connotations.
Unlike in America, where public nudity typically has gay or countercultural connotations, in modern Germany it seems to have none.
"I never had any intention to offend them or come up with any negative connotations in my statement," Djokovic said.
Freud's indifference to the connotations of his imagery, when applied to our current context, creates a charged, even trailblazing statement.
And even, given the political connotations of frogs in 2017, some jokes about alt-right versions of Frog and Toad.
When I am talking to sponsors, big companies, the word India and the connotations it creates can be somewhat restrictive.
This being the animal kingdom, territorial connotations abound: Beware the mob of emus, for instance, and the obstinacy of buffalo.
In this case, the Trademark Office did that by blocking only registrations for trademarks it determined to have negative connotations.
"Drain the Swamp" isn't just a Republican rallying cry; it has deep connotations that speak for voters in both parties.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in October defended Trump against accusations that his opposition to globalism has anti-Semitic connotations.
The title is actually understandable in the Swedish context, but in English it loses a lot of its cultural connotations.
Don't be deceived — March may not have the same snowy connotations as January and February, but it's still very much winter.
For museums, nonprofits, and cultural organizations, the use of a text-only logo brings more erudite connotations of posterity and learnedness.
Both lovers in Fleabag make fun of the Daddyesque connotations that come along with lusting after a man of the church.
"Thriller" now has its unfortunate connotations, and "Ghostbusters" and "Somebody's Watching Me" feel a bit dated, even if they remain beloved.
If the movie had put a flesh-and-blood creature in that kind of position, the unacceptable connotations would be obvious.
With purple's historic connotations of bravery and power, Syms recuperates the color and uses it as a signifier of female empowerment.
The silhouette thrown by the spotlight appeared to have some rather phallic connotations — at least in the mind of some viewers.
Yes — 2012's winter solstice coincided with the end of the Mayan calendar, which many interpreted with sadly unfulfilled apocalyptic connotations.
After all, basic terms like marriage, partnership, family or household can have utterly contrasting connotations in different social and economic settings.
The rebrand — which had strong connotations with shoppers young and old — was met with decidedly negative reaction in interviews with CNBC.
After a circuitous career traveling from popular to cult status, she can use it in different contexts and with different connotations.
" Celia Applegate, a professor of German history at Vanderbilt University, writes that heimat "carries overwhelmingly cozy, warm, childhood, affectively tender connotations.
The frog, known as Pepe the Frog, did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations, the league said in a news release.
These inadvertent camp moments, where the party guest did not realize the ironic connotations of their own costume, were pure gold.
Despite the negative connotations, bankruptcy can be an extremely resourceful strategy for consumers that have dug themselves into untenable financial situations.
"L immediately brought up so many negative connotations," NFL creative director Shandon Melvin told the San Jose Mercury News this week.
AI is a phrase with its own meaning and connotations, and they don't really match with what neural networks actually do.
It's been used for so many years and you hear it so often, I feel like there are so many connotations.
"There's a lot of negative connotations that come from just the name of [my neighbourhood]," he shares, emphasizing his Ghanaian heritage.
Considering its pejorative and vulgar connotations, "politicize," from the ancient Greek politikos, or "belonging to the state," had relatively lofty beginnings.
Mach is also known for introducing religious connotations to his work, including Jesus Christ for the Precious Light Exhibition in 2011.
The simple game brings upon a rather Americanized view on competition and the connotations that go along with winning and losing.
In the 19th century, "old thing" lost its negative connotations and was used as a term of affection for one's partner.
But upon contemplation, I've decided against using it, as the connotations with gun violence make it a less-than-ideal entry.
The playing field offered an environment, she said, where many sensibilities — physical contact, intensity, aggression, muscularity — can take on positive connotations.
When you cast aside the connotations of idol culture that surrounds them, Babymetal are doing good things for the rock scene.
"All you have to say is Hillary, uranium, Russians," and many Americans immediately get connotations of dangerous impropriety, he told me.
Despite the connotations of the word "diversity," the visa lottery originally catered to European immigrants — and, in particular, those from Western Europe.
It was important to her, she said, for the name not to conjure up any connotations of shame around pregnancy and motherhood.
James Butterfill, head of research and investment strategy at ETF Securities Limited said there were political connotations to what Draghi was saying.
When it comes to striking a specifically sexy chord, heady scents like patchouli, vetiver, or sandalwood are known for having sensual connotations.
Despite the not-so-positive connotations associated with the first Titanic, people are reportedly pretty psyched to get on the second one.
"When it comes to the idea of marriage, a lot of the religious and historical connotations jar with me," Wilson told Mashable.
Belying the connotations of being dressed head-to-toe in black, they're warm, open, happy to speak about their catalogue of work.
"As a child, if you're forced to eat something you don't like at that time it can have bad connotations," she says.
Jerkin'––which had nothing to do with its name's onanistic connotations––was an intoxicating blend of dance, music, and bright, garish fashion.
But as far as I can tell, none of the notes my male colleagues have ever received are laced with sexual connotations.
The group's database of more than 150 hate symbols includes others that started out with neutral connotations and were then co-opted.
He has a problem with his photo being used without his consent, he said, but he's mainly concerned about the political connotations.
Pick an uplifting, major chord progression, throw in some harmonies and with the added religious connotations, and a basic song becomes transcendent.
As the title alerts us, this book takes place in a territory beyond reason, in all its connotations — beyond explanation or understanding.
Methadone, she said, carries criminal connotations that can be traced back to the War on Drugs rhetoric that escalated in the 1960s.
"It's a book about the re-jigging of this country 500 years ago which has connotations with what's going now," he added.
Many members, the Times notes, work to keep their affiliation with the church secret due to negative connotations that surround the organization.
Now you occasionally see representation, like on Orange Is The New Black you have Big Boo, but it wasn't always positive connotations.
Whatever the psychological connotations, what we see is an engrossing struggle over a dance that must be passed on—but not yet.
From the X chromosome to a symbol of death, "X" is filled with connotations in Gabriela Ruiz's latest performance at Oxy Arts.
Though it is perhaps the simplest hat possible—brimless and traditionally made from hand-matted wool—the beret has strangely diverse connotations.
The word otaku, broadly considered to refer to a kind of geek "whose hobbies border on the excessive," already had negative connotations.
I'm fascinated by the cultural connotations of spitting—a way to seal the deal, to wish good luck, to get rid of tobacco.
The company, however, is still suffering from negative connotations abroad, while cutting off access to U.S.-based companies will likely halt things further.
Modesty may have deep roots and many connotations, but don't let its long history obscure its appeal, power, and relevance for modern women.
"There is no Chinese person whose grandfather owned a Cadillac," its marketing chief said, and the marque has connotations of luxury and success.
Interbrand's Feldmeth said that rebranding a company can get rid of negative connotations, similar to how GMAC changed its name to Ally Financial.
First, it had to pick up new connotations, dropping the emphasis on sexual chastity to focus on progressive values like multiculturalism and friendliness.
But for him, and many others, the cultural connotations of the moves he is making begin and end within Fortnite's shimmering, enclosing walls.
Obviously I know the connotations of having two animals fighting each other for entertainment, so I thought it could be a bit weird.
Maynard, 50, said he is not racist but believes that saturating the market with such epithets can rob them of their racist connotations.
The reasoning has less to do with concerns over historical connotations of censorship, which critics were quick to note, than with native customs.
Given that butts are gender neutral and represent a host of positive and negative connotations, they make for a fascinating topic of study.
I must have had a vague awareness of the erotic implications of a silk slip, but those connotations largely belonged to other people.
Hanging around lobbies has lost its lurid or malevolent connotations, though it's still seen as faintly sad, something to be avoided if possible.
Despite its connotations of absence, "minimalism" has been popping up everywhere lately, like a bright algae bloom in the murk of postrecession America.
While "kinda" and "really" are just fine in most situations, it's the specific connotations of secrecy and excitement that make these words winners.
After all, the "smart city" is just another way of phrasing "living city," which has connotations of the city as its own beast.
The context in which Aaliyah sounded disarmingly grown up and self-assured singing R. Kelly's songs at 15 has unseemly connotations in retrospect.
A Venetian word meaning "foundry" may have given rise to the term "ghetto", which over the years has taken on wholly negative connotations.
" There, he wrote, the young man "grew up bearing the name 'Gotti,' with all of the connotations and condemnations that the name bears.
And he drew a distinction between allies — a term he said had legal connotations — and partners in a combat mission, like the Kurds.
Ottley's installation attempts to tackle the totality of morena, inscribing both negative and positive connotations into a singular self, an identity with contradictions.
In the case of existing words, connotations are crucial: a Corvette is a light, speedy attack ship; Tesla was an inventor of genius.
" The phrase has sexual connotations, but in last week's nationally televised hearing, Kavanaugh said "devil's triangle" was a drinking game akin to "quarters.
The word "ballerina" used to have connotations of sublimity — and still does when applied to many pre-21st-century roles and their interpreters.
"The noose is an incendiary image with repugnant racial connotations," Robert H. Tembeckjian, the judicial commission administrator, said in a statement on Tuesday.
I loved Curious George and Tintin, although I see their problems now as an adult who's more sensitive to racial and colonial connotations.
Though Pantone restricted its praise for Classic Blue to its clean simplicity and calming nature, some noted that blue also has political connotations.
Semiotics and marketing aside, the connotations associated with wine are deeply damaging both to American wine culture and the civilized discussion of it.
But then we realized that "forge" had some other connotations, especially when applied to payments, and so we sort of dropped that one.
Over six years at sleepaway camp, she taught me the connotations of nouns — Victoria's Secret, Atlantis Resort, all the different tri-state suburbs.
Mosul Road, 88km has thus evolved into a multi-sensory diorama, disrupting stereotypical connotations of war through a mapping of space and identity.
As a famous tech dude, his health habits aren't subject to the same connotations or scrutiny as people who are not famous tech dudes.
Growing up, he had the same vague connotations that many young people do: stuffy, boring, made for people with white gloves and white hair.
Despite its disgusting connotations, "free helicopter rides" has become quite a meme online for people who support President Trump and his neo-fascist policies.
In working on the play, about a charm class for young queer people, Davis discovered a way to shake his negative connotations of etiquette.
"Tying the knot" and "asking for her hand" certainly carry patriarchal connotations, but that doesn't mean that the person proposing thinks in that way.
Some people made jokes about the ridiculousness of his statements, like this tweet from JuanPa: Others noted the racist connotations in what Neeson said.
Mr Gram felt that if he was going to tackle such an established genre, the central crime should have ethical connotations of some sort.
Any residual negative connotations are being scrubbed from that list: the racist caricature of Chief Wahoo, the Cleveland team's emblem, is being phased out.
The Phluid brand has items numbered from 0-4 rather than "small, medium, and large," meant to dispel any negative connotations with body size.
This bucket is currently empty and insurers would be wary of the potential negative connotations of being the only one included in this bucket.
"To be excluding one religion up front, that has all sorts of connotations coming from the evangelical community," Mr. King said in an interview.
And sometimes there are certain tropes that might have negative connotations, but we just have to own it if that's part of the genre.
Whether speaking of the unsightly mythical beasts of Norse mythology or the inflammatory online posters of 4chan, the word 'troll' carries strong, negative connotations.
They are never used to just describe — the connotations change the way we feel about ourselves and the way we walk in the world.
We demand an Asian place to be grubby, because it's more "authentic"—all of these constraints, which have such horrible racial connotations to them.
From Africa to South America, Chinese investment in the developing world has long carried connotations of political baggage — despite Beijing's assertions to the contrary.
After two years of politicization, though, Mr. Hamid and other analysts say the phrase has worrisome connotations, potentially maligning all Muslims or Islam itself.
"We all speak Italian with strong regional connotations, even if the discrepancies are minor," said Giovanni Ronco, vice director of the Italian Linguistic Atlas.
Yet the chef Tom Colicchio is dropping the name of his newest Manhattan restaurant, Fowler & Wells, after learning that it has historically racist connotations.
"There's been a fair amount of discussion in the community whether we should be using 'supremacy' because of its nasty connotations," says Blume-Kohout.
The chosen instruments of Marilu Donovan and Adam Markiewicz—a harpist and violinist, respectively, who record together as LEYA—carry with them certain connotations.
"The current acronym NIPS has unintended connotations that some members of the community find offensive," reads a blog post about the survey on NIPS' website.
This is either a passive aggressive dig at "Ur So Gay" or Katy Perry had a fanbase intent on repurposing the word with positive connotations.
At around the same time, travelling on the right caught on in revolutionary France, where the side of road people travelled on carried class connotations.
There are still negative connotations with cryptocurrencies including wild price swings and the link between bitcoin and people buying illegal items from the dark web.
There are only negative connotations regarding a gas mask, whereas there's at least a chunk of the population who use semi-automatic weapons as playthings.
The raised fist has a long history with a variety of political connotations, but most roads lead to Black Power stances of the late 1960s.
But it's accomplished through a combination of sparkling magic wands and giant syringes, which are treated as interchangeable, despite their very different connotations to adults.
The negative connotations of being branded "clingy" may, according to Brooke, cause some women to choose to act "distant and removed" from a potential partner.
Michelle Lee, the editor-in-chief of the beauty-focused Allure magazine, sees the term as one that has negative connotations and is not inclusive.
The shingles appear to have grown over the structure like fur, leaving it windowless, and each is dollhouse-scale, pairing connotations of wickedness and innocence.
As much as we want the breezy connotations of "I'm going to the beach" to ring true, in reality the whole excursion is a Production.
We only think the retrograde is a straight-up life-ruiner because of the negative connotations that we as a culture have placed on it.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, had an image attacking rival Hillary Clinton tweeted from his account today with overtly anti-semitic connotations.
At a certain point, he decided that he no longer liked living in the House on the Embankment and the connotations that came with it.
ALG: You say upfront that this is about improving cellular function, but there's no guarantee of longevity, though of course the name has connotations there.
What was once largely the preserve of rural conservatives - evoking hunters, oompah bands, ankle-slapping folk dancers - has found new fans, despite lingering political connotations.
Where the term "binge" has been associated with excessive drinking, eating, and, generally over-doing it, "marathon" has more positive connotations of health and accomplishment.
Dives in other sports have negative connotations, including the sport that Brazilians hold dearest, which is also the sport usually played at the Olympic Stadium.
Colloquialisms aside, both traits have negative connotations when tacked to women as a labels, but Saweetie reclaims the ownership of those words throughout her debut.
Unfortunately, modern marketing infantilizes its audience by seizing the connotations of sweetness and fruitiness and rejecting flavors that may be perceived as green or bitter.
Badminton puts competitors through a ton of diving, twisting, and torquing, making it a bit more dangerous despite the warm connotations of childhood backyard games.
Simons doesn't feel comfortable using the word "vegan" to describe these things because he doesn't want to be affiliated with any of its political connotations.
Double Fine could have used different imagery to evoke similar emotions regarding safety and comfort, but it wouldn't likely have had the same maternal connotations.
Those names do not mean as much today, at least to those who are drawn to whisky by the flavors rather than the brand connotations.
Living in Toronto, I became well acquainted with the connotations of the words "immigrant" (hard luck, resourceful, ambitious) and "refugee" (resource-sucking, burdensome, maybe dangerous).
Both sides of these seeming inconsistencies can be true because of the power of connotations, the feelings and emotions that certain words and images evoke.
He emphasized that it should be used sparingly, partly because the term carries such negative connotations, and partly so that it does not lose potency.
Instead of the word "sign," with its soft, vague connotations, she was inordinately fond of the word "signet," with all the official sanction it implied.
His struggle to respond effectively to Harris - and his decision to invoke a states' rights argument with all its troubling racial connotations, only compounded the damage.
However, the survey found that millennials do not have as many negative connotations about socialism and communism as older generations who lived through the Cold War.
When people think of "flash" they tend to think of lightning or comic book superheroes, while the word itself is intrinsically linked with connotations of speed.
Authoritarians are also deeply concerned with rules, stability, and hierarchies, which makes illegal immigration, with its connotations of uncontrolled unlawful behavior, even more unsettling to them.
Because of its sexual connotations, it provides plenty of shock value — especially in contrast to things like pink cake or a stack of freshly-cleaned dishes.
There are a whole host of connotations for the word "instrument" that I believe would be helpful to keep in mind as we interact with technology.
It's Spanish slang that was born out of a bit of vulgarity; the words literally translate to "don't suck," a phrase that can have … certain connotations.
The loosely organized alt-right is difficult to define, especially after some have distanced themselves from the term in recent months because of its racist connotations.
By creating job descriptions, founders can be thoughtful and sensitive to the fact that connotations and tone can unintentionally isolate a specific segment of eligible talent.
Mottainai is a Japanese term meaning 'wasteful', with connotations expressing regret for something that shouldn't be—and every day at Tsukiji there's a lot of Mottainai.
The word is fraught with negative connotations and harks back to an era in which Asian, North African and Middle Eastern peoples were reduced to caricatures.
I have no idea why we called this entity the Stack, considering the word's orderly connotations of squared-off edges and the shelving areas of libraries.
By documenting herself drifting between lovers, Ellie attempts to scrutinize the connotations that we attach to sex and the value that individuals place on intimate encounters.
Only a few female elders carried it, and elsewhere facial tattoos had negative connotations; adopted by disaffected urban Māori, they became associated with gangs and crime.
"At times, women are more afraid to identify themselves as ambitious because of the negative connotations associated with being an ambitious woman," Keys told Business Insider.
I only directed the first one, but my name became synonymous with "Saw" and therefore all the negative connotations — I became the father of torture porn.
The problem with this "soul," for Alter, is its Christian connotations of an incorporeal and immortal being, the dualism of the soul apart from the body.
This portrayal of certain races makes viewers more likely to associate these negative connotations with these races and cultures and create a divide between human beings.
Even the terminology is in flux, as officials work to identify an alternative to the term "block grant," which has negative connotations in the advocacy community.
"Also referred to as the 'sad frog meme,' Pepe the Frog did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations," the organization said then in a news release.
The students who immediately recognized the impact of this act directly modeled the courage to address situations that invite racism, depict racism, or contain racist connotations.
Maturity Maturity has many connotations, but at its core refers to the ability of people to act correctly, effectively and ethically in a myriad of situations.
Often her work involves olfaction, which she sees as a kind of feminist intervention into an industry that privileges the gaze and its historically male connotations.
The president may not have permanently altered the connotations of these everyday words, but by imitating him, we are trafficking in the discourse of his choosing.
But it's like, you can't get too high if a piece does really well, and you can't get too low if a piece has negative connotations.
But now that we've moved past the "omg scrunchies are back?!" stage in the life cycle of fashion trends, we can enjoy them without the nostalgic connotations.
For one thing, the label carries negative connotations, implying that a video game in which all you do is walk around and experience something is inherently bad.
But — when it's used with positive connotations — "bitch" can signify anything from a woman who doesn't let anyone stand in her way to a term of endearment.
With the following caveats: odd numbers do better than evens on the whole, round numbers do terribly, and numbers with nerdy or sexual connotations do well also.
Even as they've lost much of their stigma, dating apps have acquired a transitional set of contradictory cultural connotations and mismatched norms that border on dark comedy.
"They don't even dare use the three words 'funujie'," she said, referring to the original name of "Women's Day" in China, which has connotations of working women.
While we're happy that Kimmel took a moment to give the absolutely adorable Pawar more screen time, we wish it had been done without these problematic connotations.
Stirring stirs up tons of connotations: the image of a witch hovering over a bubbling cauldron; childhood memories of licking brownie batter off of a wooden spoon.
Unfortunately the name they came up with to replace it, the New Empire Station Complex, has its own sinister connotations, as noted by the AP's Jonathan Lemire.
But the overlapping terms often carry moral connotations that could not be more divergent: Coups, in today's understanding, are to be condemned; revolts are to be championed.
Tippett explained that the president's rhetoric would make it difficult to argue that a similar comment was made innocuously or out of ignorance of its racist connotations.
" Are these pejorative connotations coming from the people who use the term, or do they only exist in the minds of the people who dislike "illegal alien?
The move is being implemented due to the racial connotations of the term for a league in which Black athletes make up the majority of its players.
"I don't know if I like the Mafioso connotations of that," said Mr. Coppola, who is 993 and still composing, conducting and devoting his life to opera.
The smell of damp pelt (and the not-so-subtle bodily connotations of the name) made some customers feel uncomfortable rather than swaddled in the dense odor.
In a world where more and more communication is typed, and never seen or heard, these micro-connotations have become extremely useful in indicating tone and intent.
An Alabama high school is ending its tradition of playing "Dixie" during football games this year because of the "negative connotations" associated with the minstrel show song.
Dynatrace CEO John Van Siclen was initially skeptical of the transaction because "there are a lot of negative connotations that come along with private equity," he said.
The term has largely become taboo among German speakers because of its derogatory connotations; as a diminutive, it implies that an unmarried woman isn't a full adult.
The modern connotations of "theory" are a legacy of the industrialization and professionalism of science, with theory and practice converging in larger labs, bolder experiments, better tools.
Public housing in Hong Kong does not have the negative connotations it sometimes does in the United States, partly because so many people here depend on it.
The rhetoric plays into President Donald Trump and his supporters' strategy to tie the 2020 Democrats to socialism, a term they believe has negative connotations for voters.
He described himself as a registered Democrat and said he thought the post was supporting the death penalty, and that he did not consider its racial connotations.
Since people are unable to hear your tone directly, they read into the connotations of words and create a tone in their head as they go along.
While the employees are back at work for now, the image of striking leather workers on Wednesday might have had especially negative connotations for the luxury brand.
Top health officials in the U.S. have said the phrase is inaccurate and promotes racist connotations, not to mention damaging long-term relations between the two countries.
"Prior to the novel, Lolita was the nickname for Dolores and did not have the nymphet connotations," Mai and Nguyen write in the "Frequently Asked Questions" chapter.
Its packaging was carefully considered: the age of the cat it was for was made clear to owners, using "7+" instead of "senior" to avoid any negative connotations.
Instead of simply signifying her interest in equal rights, her denial re-imbues the word feminist with the same played out man-hating, bra-burning, old maid connotations.
"Hard water has bad connotations but, I want to point out that it also contains lots of minerals which are in fact good for the skin," Haydon says.
Most of the artists kept working, and the questions they raised about decoration, craft, function and (even) beauty — and the frequently pejorative connotations of those words — hung around.
"Wholesome" is starting to pick up its new connotations around the same time, but its search history is stable: It's not an object of intense interest just yet.
People who watched the first video were more put off by the word and said that it had more negative connotations, suggesting that there is a social aspect.
In the Arab world, however, these connotations surround professional dancers only, not the dance as it is practiced in homes and during celebrations from weddings to henna parties.
Cultural critics have spent gobs of time puzzling out why a C-list veg, with no previous erotic connotations in American pop culture, rapidly took on this tinge.
Crazy Boy's company was re-branded about a year ago in an effort to distance it from violent connotations and is now known as DTU Mexican Professional Fighting.
So here's a question for you: Forgetting all things moist for a second, what other words (without explicit sexual, scatological, racial or taboo connotations) do you find repulsive?
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said that "only if your mind is in the gutter" would one have read sexual connotations into his tweet.
The word "junta" means "board" in Spanish, without dictatorial connotations, but with federal oversight now on the horizon, it has been appearing on anti-junta banners and graffiti.
His stories were seasoned with multisyllabic medical terms (necrosis, enucleation, cyanosis) as well as words that have different connotations when used by doctors than when used by patients.
As with May and Kramp-Karrenbauer, those watching would do better to pay attention to the political landscape Harris is working within now, rather than any nostalgic connotations.
For all its localized and specific class connotations, Hardyism offers a glimpse of what a specific slice of teendom, from a specific set of years, thought was cool.
Indeed, the name Diana was selected not only for its lunar-friendly connotations, but because lead engineer John H. Dewitt Jr., wanted to play up the virgin angle.
It's not always good, either: After Croatia defeated Argentina in the first round, the Croatian defender Dejan Lovren posted footage of himself singing a song with fascist connotations.
The artist may be using a theme of pious suffering as his source, but his treatment is in no way tied to the usual connotations or historical precedents.
It's an awesome, awful image, one that easily transcends its B-movie-prop connotations because of what it enables both the investigators and the audience to truly see.
That the phrase "the fall," in the context of espionage fiction, usually refers to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall doesn't entirely rinse it of its theological connotations.
This does mean blanket rejection even of individuals seeking political asylum and refugee status, however, which has dangerous connotations in terms of compassionate and human rights-related entry.
PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A Ligue 1 derby between Nice and Olympique Marseille was interrupted for several minutes on Wednesday over the display of banners with homophobic connotations.
In the 1999 edition of the newspaper's style manual, for example, the term "transgender" wasn't included — "transsexual," a term disliked by many for its pathological connotations, appears instead.
No official reason was given for the change, but the term "Aborigine" is often considered offensive because of its "racist connotations from Australia's colonial past," according to Amnesty.
"Typefaces kind of act like a sponge, and all the connotations — when it was made and what companies it was used for — get absorbed by them," Samarskaya said.
But they acknowledged, too, that cigarettes were "props" with specific connotations for characters and audience members -- characters who used them were often played as cool, tough and dangerous.
It was only relatively recently that I understood fully the extremely negative connotations that exist around the word atheism in America, which don't exist at all in Europe.
In December, Christian evangelical leader Mike Evans made the comparison while praising Trump's decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, another act with deep theological connotations.
Don't worry, they start off with a lovely palette cleanser of Reggie philosophy, in case you need a moment before the potentially-troubling metaphysical connotations of Mario spirit possession.
""We did surveys in the Latin American community to understand if they felt the name was a misappropriation of that term or had negative connotations, and 97% said 'no.
We did surveys in the Latin American community to understand if they felt the name was a misappropriation of that term or had negative connotations, and 97% said 'no'.
"Being a feminist in my opinion just states that you want a more balanced society as opposed to the negative connotations that the word 'feminist' sometimes has," says Aaron.
Roberts may have been already past her teenage years, but the "sweetheart" label served to underscore her youth, calling forth a near-century of cultural connotations of the word.
Krasinski's blockbuster reflects the assumption we make, whatever our personal experiences, that the connotations of "family" are innately positive, even when it's used as an excuse for bad behavior.
"Queynte" is literally a pleasing thing or ingenious device, but then as now, it sounds like "cunt"; "spille" means "death or destruction," but it also carries connotations of orgasm.
While some of these lists are innocent enough — for example, someone might create a list of chefs they like following — there is the potential for lists with negative connotations.
And then there are the phallic connotations of the nose itself, perhaps best laid out in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the first installment of which was published in 1759.
The image of a group of male friends careering drunkenly through the party district with the intention of piling into a club isn't one that's overloaded with positive connotations.
But the negative connotations many Americans bring away from it, and how craftily Donald Trump can make the crooked label stick, may just deprive her of The White House.
"De Wey's" racial connotations became so explicit that, as Kotaku reported, some Overwatch League teams stopped engaging with fans that posted it or publicly distanced themselves from its use.
You can't just swap out the body part that's being objectified and expect it to be the same, because male and female bodies have different connotations — especially in Hollywood.
As a blonde, 5-foot tall woman with an overtly "feminine" body, I can't negate the obvious and immediate connotations that people might have when they see me perform.
While the term "hustle" has positive and negative connotations on the streets, as it pertains to Trump, it refers to people who take advantage of others for personal gains.
This, she said, was likely because of the negative connotations linked to popular uprisings that remain in a country still healing from the wounds of its brutal civil war.
The organization's history also shows how hard it is to detach those symbols from their original connotations, and how efforts to insist otherwise can marginalize and exclude non-adherents.
" And so, after liaising with "the community," the Breakfast Group doubled back, opting instead to call the venue Burlock, having realized the "negative connotations associated with the original name.
These are seen as less attractive as they have lower corporate governance requirements, do not qualify for entry into most stock indices and have connotations of being second best.
She became interested in the subject after reading an article advocating the removal of racist connotations in mathematics education — particularly in the kinds of equations that appeared in textbooks.
Voodoo has negative connotations in Western culture — but was primarily used for healing, good luck, and love as described throughout the tiny voodoo museum where these trinkets were sold.
His request was denied, with an official citing a California regulation that prohibits a license plate that "may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency," the complaint reads.
Nigerian law even bans political parties if they adopt names, logos or mottoes with ethnic, geographic or religious connotations, or if their membership does not satisfy constitutional diversity requirements.
It's sometimes religious, since the lore of the evil eye has threads in Christian, Jewish and Islamic literature, but it can also have more secular and generally spiritual connotations.
Now more than ever, powerful characters are showing off their natural hair on TV shows and continue to break through negative connotations that have followed black hair for years.
Peskov has already spelled out the Kremlin's frustration with US politics and the way in which the "Russia issue," with its connotations of hacking and collusion, have become so poisonous.
For more than 3,000 years, cash has played a critical role in the way our society functions — due as much to its fiscal value as its emotional and cultural connotations.
Yep. Lastly, do you think it's OK to use animals for reasons that may also have political connotations, such as the taking down of drones, or even using sniffer dogs?
It is considered by many to be offensive both due to the use of the outdated and derogatory term of the Innuit people and also its racist and sexual connotations.
THUMP: You're in the US for Moogfest, the audience might not have the same cultural connotations with 808 State as they do in the UK. Is that good or bad?
"I just feel like there are lots of negative connotations with the word 'salon' — it's old-fashioned and intimidating," Hersheson explained as he walked us through the brand-new space.
Year after year, designers look to other cultures for "inspiration," without actually taking the time to invest in the cultural, political, and historical connotations of those they are inspired by.
Whether or not the actresses chose to wear emeralds because of their connotations, it's hard not to read into their presence on a night where everything holds even more significance.
He is fascinated with how the symbol retains its connotations of power and victory while its specific meaning changes depending on the group or discourse within which it is situated.
The accusation of being "in the gutter" and the moniker of "bag lady" have connotations of blame and shame, but the figures in Williams paintings are having none of it.
Because of the rivalries with Ajax and its supporters, the word has become charged with negative and offensive connotations, which have carried over to the world outside of football stadiums.
You can visit or revisit these works and find the ordinary in them, or something potentially different, with distinctive connotations — different, at least, as to what you expect to find.
Republicans also privately expressed fears about Mueller's appearance, stating that he could easily light more pro-impeachment fires if he uses certain words that have different connotations, purposefully or unintentionally.
The two most misinterpreted were the "grinning face with smiling eyes," which looks like a grimace to Apple users, and "sleeping face," which Microsoft users view as having negative connotations.
But if one pared away the bumps and their touchy-feely characterological connotations, Dr. Fodor argued, phrenology's underlying premise — that the mind consists of discrete, dedicated faculties — was worth revisiting.
The thing that holds this word salad together (and I mean "word salad" in the nicest way, because it can have negative connotations) is that the revealer crosses each one.
The company was named for a mountain near Woodstock, N.Y., where the Mayers shipped their initial books from an old apple shed, but the name came to have other connotations.
While some have applauded the artist's and institution's responsiveness to the Dakota people, others have questioned the message sent by dismantling or burning art, with its historical connotations of censorship.
Why would the elected leader of a democratic nation embrace a label that, after the death of Stalin, even the Soviet Union found to be too freighted with sinister connotations?
It's an album that, truthfully, I have never bothered paying attention to because of the general negative connotations of posthumous releases and the bad reputations Biggie's have gotten in particular.
I was born in the Middle East, but I'm white-passing, speak unaccented English, and Judaism can have very different sexual connotations for people, so I've gotten all kinds of responses.
It satisfies a variety of styles: While Sachs noted its "Brooklyn industrial appeal," Bruyère, who is originally from the northwest of France, sought out the style for its French bistro connotations.
After the clothing brand put an image of a black child model wearing a "coolest monkey in the jungle" sweatshirt on its website, people grew rightfully outraged at its racist connotations.
Both Daredevil and Jessica Jones wore hoodies as part of their superhero uniforms, but the connotations of a black man wearing a hoodie and getting shot at are specific and unmistakable.
Perhaps the weight inherent in this title is linked to the original connotations of influence—that mystery, intrigue, and divine force with the power to shift the positions of heavenly bodies.
With Luminosity, a situation where even his fans seemed to acknowledge the implicit racism, Thorin doesn't actually admit to any racial connotations, leveraging the commonplace argument that people don't understand humor.
I think if you go back a couple years in technology rhetoric, a lot of the slogans people had that were read optimistically have come to take on darker connotations too.
Honda was also on the verge of calling its city car the "Fitta" in 2001, before it realized what the word meant (it has similarly anatomical connotations) in Swedish and Norwegian.
Both Friday and the number 13 have been twisted to carry negative connotations, according to Gina Spriggs, a North Carolina-based futurist and holistic intuitive; she blames patriarchal religions for this.
When the chief and I sat down in a sparsely decorated conference room at the DPD headquarters to talk about Operation Restore Order, Craig was quick to acknowledge the "oppressive" connotations.
The name has voyeuristic connotations but is also literal: A tubular aquarium with flitting clown fish and honeycombs of coral extends from the floor, through the ceiling and into the lobby.
With all of its pejorative connotations, "Ponzi scheme" may actually be a bit unfair to Ponzi, conjuring up someone who was more mendacious and greedy than the real Ponzi actually was.
Médine n'a cessé d'expliquer que le titre se référait au jihad spirituel entrepris par les musulmans pratiquants, et qu'il ne comportait pas les connotations violentes que des critiques lui attribuent aujourd'hui.
LaTosha Brown, that organization's co-founder, said that Ms. Hyde-Smith's remarks showed that she either was ignorant of the phrase's negative connotations or uttered it as a racist dog whistle.
As part of the exhibition, which considers the cultural and historical connotations of gold, Sussman repaired a fissure in the museum's marble floor, an embedded installation now in their permanent collection.
The words "Next year in Jerusalem," traditionally sung by Jews at the end of the Yom Kippur fast and after the Passover feast, have almost religious significance, with connotations of redemption.
I think the statue itself is indicative of the problem of America, in that we're reducing history to one sentence and then we add connotations onto it: Jefferson Davis created slavery.
The birthright the Allmans' music claimed was geographical — American and particularly Southern — and with it came a willingness to move past genre lines and all their connotations of race and class.
The word "consumerism" may have negative connotations in the United States, where such spending accounts for about 19893 percent of G.D.P., but it means something quite different in recently poor countries.
It was mainly rated X simply because it wasn't suitable for kids — the "X" rating was almost brand new in 1969, and didn't have the same connotations as it does today.
Also, if you look at the way "NYx" is spelled, n and y are capitalized, so it gives us the possibility of an alternative interpretation, and brings connotations of New York.
But even when Fassnidge and Freeman strip GIFs of all real-world connotations, and just show participants simple blinking lights, around 20 percent of study participants will say they hear something.
Typically, for those who only identify as queer, the terms lesbian, gay, and bisexual are perceived to be too limiting and/or fraught with cultural connotations they feel don't apply to them.
Join us as we talk about reading the book as an adult, the not-so-hidden religious connotations in the book, and the larger than life characters we meet in the journey.
Sometimes, for those who only identify as queer, the terms lesbian, gay, and bisexual are perceived to be too limiting and/or fraught with cultural connotations they feel don't apply to them.
Even the people who don't use Twitter (and that's most people) know what a tweet looks like, and the connotations that come with that design: a concise missive straight from the source.
What if she's doing Storm(y/i)s everywhere a favor by having her new baby girl be the new most popular Stormi, pushing the name's previous Trumpian connotations out the window?
Dynamism and mobility are meant to be liberating, but the darker connotations of cleared desks and ephemeral presence lurk in the shadows of the creative workplace's imported espresso machines and Aeron chairs.
In his rhetoric, Trump is a throwback, using "dog" almost exclusively with its earlier, nasty connotations—and revealing the bleak, pitiless view of the world that characterizes his whole approach to politics.
Individually, each of those comments or connotations might seem small or irrelevant, but the fact that it's repeated so often in all media creates that narrative around a candidate or their ideas.
Given the well-known romantic connotations of this short story, it's incredibly easy to see how even in the early days, Bert and Ernie's relationship seemed to be more than just friendship.
Avoiding income tax "makes me smart," he declared with no shame for the wider connotations of a presidential aspirant who would sacrifice the interests of the citizenry to make a quick buck.
Despite the recent inroads made in legitimizing and de-stigmatizing mental illness and those who suffer from it, the mysterious facilities in which these ailments are treated often still carry negative connotations.
Both Friday and the number 13 have been twisted to have negative connotations, according to Gina Spriggs, a North Carolina-based futurist and holistic intuitive; she blames patriarchal religions for this fact.
The expression was perceived as carrying racial connotations — a dog whistle to white voters amid civil rights protests — so Trump's resurrection of the language could further erode his standing with minority voters.
The problem is that when someone thought to translate the name of the dish into English, the German tafelspitz became "boiled beef," with its unfortunate connotations of overcooked, gray-centered, stringy meat.
"We shouldn't ignore the possibility that 'neutral' could be a way for some Americans, especially Democrats, to couch their policy preferences without using a term that has historically negative connotations," said Murray.
While bankruptcy can have negative connotations, it can be an important strategy for consumers in difficult financial situations — it gives them the opportunity to start fresh, free of different types of debt.
In Yiddish, chicken broth is called goldene yoich, golden broth — much as America was called the goldene medina, the golden land — with all the same connotations of richness, sunshine and good fortune.
According to Jonah Berger, a Wharton professor and bestselling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On, parents choose their child's name based on its connotations, and public figures often have positive ones.
Looking at any piece of art in the shadow of 9/11 is going to have new connotations, and in a way all my work feels pretty heavily influenced by that day.
And while one of the Golden Lovers' classic signature moves is called the Golden Shower, its name is singular and young lovers thinking about golden showers has some decidedly non-wrestling connotations.
Although many societies define old age as beginning between 60 and 70, for many people, especially younger and healthier ones, the word "old" carries connotations of frailty, debility, and proximity to death.
In the 20th century, historical fiction acquired its dreaded "genre fiction" status, with its connotations of corsets, unfurling Nazi flags, the fetid smell of Victorian London — the dinner theater of literature, essentially.
He stayed away from the more classical or Christian tracks, as he said it was important to him that the music reflected the times and didn't have connotations to any specific religion.
According to Joseph Pace, a producer and writer on the film, the vegan and vegetarian movements carry connotations of New Agey-types or PETA activists, which don't always resonate with male viewers.
The Clarks, Mamie Till and others used childhood innocence to make important political gains, but their use of the "master's tools" ultimately could not erase the racial connotations of childhood innocence itself.
Trump has recently taken to proclaiming he is a "nationalist" and berated "globalists" -- two designations that have innocent connotations in some contexts but are also recognized as code words by anti-Semites.
For most ideological and older conservatives, the negative connotations of the word "tax" — beaten into their heads by decades of conditioning — run far deeper than any focus group explanation of climate policy.
Amish Tripathi, author of the "Shiva Trilogy" of racy potboilers, calls himself a "religious liberal" and uses only his first name on book jackets to avoid the upper-caste connotations of his surname.
"Those connotations are ones that are suggested to us by our background knowledge of the language and its culture, which is why 'Despacito' seems to resonate for a lot of people," Reed says.
It is these tangled connotations that a new exhibition at the Altes Museum digs into, utilising the breadth of the State Museum's historical and ethnographical collections to dissect the obsession with bodily tissue.
In 2018, he apologized for all of the negative connotations that came along with Blue Monday, telling The Independent that it "was never my intention" to make it sound like a bad day.
"Particularly with the language of Remoaners, Remaniacs, Brexiteers—they've created very strong emotive connotations with people who affiliate with these views, and it's quite nasty to see oneself labelled as either," replied Monteiro.
And that means picking up side missions, indicated by blue diamonds, and more personal quests, where Aloy will carry out a task just for one person, something without connotations for the main narrative.
Dependent's connotations are not only antithetical to those virtues we value most as a country, but they also feed into the worst kinds of stereotypes about military spouses and antiquated notions of homemakers.
At the Under-217 edition of the sport's showpiece tournament this past month in India, printed on the back of the USA's Number 220 shirt was a small word with big connotations: WEAH.
The bill would put Puerto Rico's financial affairs under a powerful federal control board, despite warnings from elected officials in Puerto Rico that heavy-handed oversight from Washington would have unacceptable colonial connotations.
Because the first Watch Dogs presented a dour world with a truly unlikeable protagonist and troubling connotations—likely, not the ones the game even set out to make—about security, rights, and justice.
"With things like depression, there are a lot more views among the general public—which may not be medically accurate—of what's associated with that and the connotations of it," Shelley told me.
That metaphor, developed in the midst of the United States' losing war in Vietnam, has had both positive and negative connotations over the years, with some invigorated by the symbolism and others appalled.
" A multidimensional hue with widely varying connotations, it is no longer, Ms. Steele insisted, "just girlie dumb pink but androgynous, cool hip protesting pink, an expression of all kinds of more complicated ideas.
She hadn't heard the term "e-girl" until early 2019, after it had become a TikTok meme, and though she knew that it had some negative connotations, she was quick to self-deprecate.
One is a degrading slur meant to dehumanize the target; the other is a metaphor with unflattering connotations: that the target bears a similarity to a character infamous for his lack of integrity.
But he added that the term "victory garden" makes some modern farmers cringe because of its military connotations, and its use during the internment of Japanese-Americans, many of whom were farmers themselves.
At the same time, "blur" also signifies various Surrealist and Dadaist linguistic practices, such as aphorisms, wordplay, and poems, which mined Freudian, often erotic, connotations, thus evoking the secret workings of the unconscious.
"Despite all of these positive connotations, the liberation of cities in Iraq and Syria has proved to be much more of a mixed bag for those living in the aftermath," the report said.
We can use the word "maternal" because it has so many connotations, but what I like about it is that, in Brienne's own way, she is expressing something of their mother to them.
If Mr. Trump was reaching for a broadly uplifting concept — renewal — he landed instead on a term with very specific, and very negative, connotations for the population he says he aims to help.
But the term "Hillary-ed" — and its connotations of being an unelectable female politician, whether because of scandals or sexism or being out of touch — is probably not the legacy Clinton hoped for.
The phrase — literally "You eat bananas" — has darker connotations when it's shouted at two men, both in their 214s, who were caught nude in a rented room by local vigilantes in late March.
The phrase — literally "You eat bananas" — has darker connotations when it's shouted at two men, both in their 20s, who were caught nude in a rented room by local vigilantes in late March.
This Paris installation may be the most gleeful show of his grimy work possible, an effect achieved by mixing connotations of minimalist absence (with the ultra-spare array of works) within sumptuous neoclassical extravagance.
" The negative connotations behind the meaning of "natural law and natural rights" could be a direct threat to queer people who are black, white, rich, poor, undocumented, or living in so-called "middle America.
In addition, the poems of this section are all 14 lines, evoking the sonnet form, which has connotations of authority, rule, and dictated structure—ingredients that, when mixed just right, result in tyrannical systems.
In addition to being interpreted as a call for violence, the charged term had added connotations in relation to Lynch, who is only the second African-American to hold the office of attorney general.
The perm has had so many bad connotations attached to it, but if it does come back in any kind of way, it's when the cool person gets it, and then everybody loves it.
Republicans seem to believe that the connotations of "socialism" could be fatal in the same way Democrats believe Donald Trump's controversial positions on immigration and Muslims could be a poison pill for the GOP.
But Alleyne says Privateer's name and pirate ship logo — designed by the same firm behind the Starbucks logo — may carry negative connotations in Jamaica, which was under British rule for more than 300 years.
Such as: While the Google name carries heavy connotations, the biggest takeaway from the billion-dollar round is what Lyft will be able to do with the money and the increased profile it brings.
Nasty woman When Trump called Clinton a "nasty woman" during a debate dig, Clinton supporters embraced the phrase -- capitalizing on the positive connotations of the word that have existed in American slang for years.
It may seem a little silly, but when you consider how anything to do with the left has long-standing negative connotations, it's easier to understand why they deserve a day in their honor.
As the young man's religious and psychological crisis accelerates, "Tikkun" (a Hebrew word with complex theological and moral connotations) grows funnier and darker, without abandoning the empathy that saves it from excessive self-consciousness.
When Sanders invokes God's intent in Donald Trump's occupation of the White House, she infuses religions connotations on Trump's tenure that will excite his base but will further erode his support in mainstream America.
This was the first trailer for Resident Evil 5, and, aside from its very questionable racial connotations, it presented the palpable sense that Capcom wanted its action-horror games to be taken seriously now.
In addition, an email surfaced from 2013 in which she appeared to show her using terms with Nazi-era connotations including "Überfremdung," which roughly translates to "foreign infiltration" according to a Deutsche Welle report.
"We did surveys in the Latin American community to understand if they felt the name was a misappropriation of that term or had negative connotations, and 97 percent said 'no,'" he tells the publication.
At the beginning of the episode, the kidnapped young Ian is delivered to "the Bakra," a term of Caribbean origin that has connotations of slave ownership but also gets plenty of witchy overtones here.
Annual celebrations of Bastille Day soon arose, but when Napoleon came to power, disliking their revolutionary connotations, he transformed the event into a military parade, and for a time it lost its original meaning.
Dan Brown's novel mentioned that this famous order of knights was arrested, tortured, and killed on Friday, October 13, 1307, and essentially credited that moment in history for the cultural connotations around Friday the 13th.
" The Lakota People's Law Project dismissed this as "a total ignorance of — or, more likely, a willful refusal to acknowledge — the racist connotations of this action on the part of the Kentucky hometown investigative firm.
While Pankhurst and Paul chose it as a symbol of the "purity" of their aims at the beginning of the 20th century, it could not then and cannot now be dissociated from its racial connotations.
Despite the negative connotations that often come with egg freezing, Bischoff — who is now engaged to Ricky Angel, a regional sales manager based out of her native Chicago — is working hard to break that mold.
So I wanted to revisit an idea I've tried to express before because I feel like if we used different words to talk about technology, then we could bring along a better set of connotations.
Although eugenics would later accrue sinister connotations, many of the early adopters of eugenic theories were American progressives who believed science could be used to guide social policies and create a better society for all.
For they are more like religious tenets (and baseball dances with religious connotations in its descriptions: sacrifice bunts ... sacrifice flies ... saves!) and parenting legacies passed down generation to generation, adapted slowly, like an aging port.
But just because you're rocking a ruffled gown or silk slip dress doesn't mean you can't look like a total badass — in fact, we're here to crush those super-girly connotations once and for all.
It may just look like a nice scarf to you, but the wearing of a kaffiyeh has religious and political connotations to many, especially as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
As soon as they stepped out of doors they put themselves on visual display as flesh for hire—just think of the connotations of the words tramp, streetwalker—or risked the humiliation of street harassment.
Once this is done, it "projects" the 1624 official Unicode Consortium emoji (which have also been mapped according to their connotations) onto this semantic space to determine where the textual and emoji vector points overlap.
"Irish-Americans vigorously protested such an alignment of their ethnicity with an animal that carried all sorts of popular connotations about dirt and disease," Professor Casey wrote in a book manuscript based on her dissertation.
The revitalization of surrealism for the exhibition originated from "the idea of an art circus, and thinking about the term in all of its multiple historical connotations," tells Joanna Frang, Barrett Art Center's executive director.
But somehow, despite the hillbilly connotations of the banjo, or maybe because of it, Sera Cahoone's vocals on her new single "Up To Me" mystically transform the banjo into an instrument with depth and intonation.
Pastels' atavistic connotations — of traditional femininity and nostalgia for a pre-Voting Rights Act America — have been subsumed, like so much else, by ironic self-awareness and maybe even by a subtle sense of tragedy.
People for whom the word "hustle" has lost all of its negative connotations may well admire Mr. Bowien for making a deal, not quite realizing that what he has sold is access to their heads.
Just the word 'loser' has extreme negative connotations as it implies that someone is less than others when a majority of people would rather be in the position of power that goes along with winning.
While buffing a character or a map usually doesn't mean to make it shine in a literal sense, it is a word that has positive connotations and is well-known throughout most video game communities.
The new name - "Rassemblement National" in French, meaning rally or union - is meant to show the party's new willingness to rally other parties behind it, and drop antagonistic connotations of the old Front, she said.
Given its mystical connotations, it's not a scent associated with the secular world, but lately I have noticed its distinctive smoke wafting over more earthly settings, from Brooklyn dive bars to blue-chip art openings.
Later, in a gaggle with more than a dozen reporters, Graham called the process "literally a political lynching," questioned the state of journalism and scolded them for asking about the racial connotations of Trump's statement.
By that we don't mean he's an art student or he's doing something stupidly weird as fuck that no one will understand—or any of the other not-so-great connotations of being labelled an artist.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The word "speculation" wasn't always wrapped in connotations of mere conjecture—something based on fluff rather than fact, or a signal to watch your wallet and beware of a scam.
O'Reilly set up this "Watters World" segment by talking about how in the first presidential debate, the word "China" came up a dozen times, mostly from GOP candidate Donald Trump, and almost entirely with negative connotations.
Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede — which currently has performances in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri — are dropping the "Dixie" from their brand name to avoid negative connotations with the antebellum South ahead of the 25 season.
Consequently, Virgo in Japanese is the "otome sign" (otome-za), highlighting the virginal, pure connotations of the word and the genre's initial emphasis on pure love as often depicted in shojo (girls') manga at the time.
I'm not sure how i feel about it, the word troll has all these nasty connotations associated with bullying and abuse and negativity and the whole drive behind what I'm doing is the opposite of that.
Sexist connotations aside, the conversation addressed the fact that Nick doesn't appear to have done much with his career aside from a stint as a software businessman, and stints finding love in front of an audience.
For another, the use of the word "predator" — which carries all kinds of bad connotations when it comes to American race relations — is poorly coded when you make the leap from Zootopia's specific universe to ours.
The polarizing hue has been associated with everything from masculinity and the working class to the more recent feminized and eroticized connotations, where everyone from Barbie to Bic (yep, those pens) has played with the hue.
Candidates hand out the fabric freely, the way American candidates might give away campaign buttons and T-shirts, according to Nina Sylvanus, an anthropology professor at Northeastern University who has studied the fabric and its connotations.
" The November 1988 issue of the fanzine Soul Underground reported that "Burton menswear stores boss Ralph Halpern has banned all smiley T shirts from his stores, having belatedly discovered the drugs connotations of these insidious garments.
I realized that I had hesitated to use the word "bisexual" because of all its negative connotations, but that seemed both unfair and like a symptom of an internalized bias I wanted to eradicate in myself.
This rich concert, with Julian Wachner conducting Novus NY, alluded to Bernstein as influenced (Mahler's Fourth Symphony, with the soprano Joanna Mongiardo, at 21976:12); as colleague (Copland's "Connotations," at 16:51); and as influencer (Mr.
It's a track called "Naeem" that arrives at the midpoint of "i,i," the fourth album Vernon has made as Bon Iver, and like most of his songs it's a bundle of disparate emotions and connotations.
It's a track called "Naeem" that arrives at the midpoint of "i,i," the fourth album Vernon has made as Bon Iver, and like most of his songs it's a bundle of disparate emotions and connotations.
But, as President, he should realize that when he embraces an ideology with such incredibly negative historical (and current) connotations, he plays a very dangerous game with few possible positive outcomes for the country at large.
Demolish, with its connotations of a thunderous explosion, is what happened to the old Kosciuszko Bridge in New York City when its steel ramps went down in puffs of gray smoke in a carefully controlled detonation.
Under reconsideration must be the falsity and dangers of (supposedly) totalizing concepts and their darker connotations, particularly those aspects of totalizing ideologies that have tended to impede reconfigurations of their boundary definitions from achieving a greater reflexivity.
The network that would ultimately become CBN was founded in 7003 by 2700-year-old Marion Gordon Robertson (he chose to go by "Pat," disliking the feminine connotations of his birth name), son of former US Sen.
The standoff with the Haerle brewery in the southern German town of Leutkirch began when a Berlin consumer protection group protested at use of the German word "bekoemmlich", carries connotations of health as well as of tastiness.
While the history itself is fascinating and worth a read, in light of recent pop culture events, we also think a quick refresher on all things locs is important to help clear up misconceptions and negative connotations.
The key with the metal is to embrace all its connotations: You can go full-on pawn shop and layer, layer, layer, like model of the minute Adwoa Aboah, or stick to a more subdued, minimalist approach.
The study of the history of emotions suggests that although we may use the same words for feelings across centuries, in different eras these words are embedded in different cultures and end up having very different connotations.
"While I fully understand the difficulty of changing a tradition, the song has negative connotations that contradict our school district&aposs core values of unity, integrity, and relationships," Mullins said in a statement reported by WHNT-TV.
When Napster made it easy to share MP3 files illegally on a P2P network, McKenty believes, it set back business usage of P2P for a decade because of the bad connotations associated with the popular use case.
By 2015, the year emoji regulator Unicode admitted the eggplant's connotations to itself, a study showed that of a billion emojis sent worldwide, a million were eggplants, mostly sent in the US and Canada for raunchy reasons.
Therefore, "people will engage in patterns of travel that are clearly identifiable as a form of tourism, but will describe themselves with other terms that are have fewer negative connotations," such as "traveler" or "visitor," Garcia says.
For many in the conservative/liberal/neoconservative permanent government, it is perhaps not so much America First's historical connotations (pre-World War II isolationism) but the idea that country should come before empire that is most horrifying.
For those of us who were more than a little skeptical about the prospect of another Clinton presidency (less "With Her," as the slogan went, than desperately appalled at the alternative), the elitist, corporate connotations were overwhelming.
The lyric here has a lot of direct references to the backwards-ness of the Aussie government—religious connotations, "knights and dames" referring to the re-institution of the colonial idea of Knighthood, the disrespect of women.
In the darkest corner of the gallery — darkest in terms of material, racial, and lighting connotations — black heads are rendered in paintings and mounted on stands, while one lone white head lies discarded on the floor, decapitated.
That is a neutral description, but Mr. Trump on Friday used the term in a way that was clearly intended to carry pejorative connotations: "He's a leaker," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Comey at a news conference.
"Most of people were positive towards me about the letter but I was surprised that so many people do not understand the racist connotations behind Kool-Aid and watermelon in relation to black people," Harris told CNN.
With those connotations aside, however, Little Joe is a great horror film: slow-moving, filled with dread, set in a pastel landscape that makes the fiery red flowers of the scientists' new houseplant all the more creepy.
The spider, meanwhile, can have connotations of maternity, as in Louise Bourgeois's "Maman" sculpture or a Navajo woven blanket, but the US Army's 7th Division also used a spidery black widow shape as a symbol of deadliness.
But the word, despite its negative connotations, really isn't all bad — especially if it means getting more bang for your buck on what tends to be one of the more expensive parts of your beauty routine: skin care.
He named the program FruityLoops, though Cannie explains that neither the connotations of the word "fruity" nor the implication that a musician is just using "pre-canned loops" did the product any favors during its pre-profitable years.
These are the thoughts that raced through my mind when I learned that Franco has been collaborating with composer Tim O'Keefe as a multi-disciplinary film, music, and installation project called Daddy (a name with unmistakable gay connotations).
It has also coincided with a historic weakening of union power, which has pushed teachers and their representatives away from the negotiating table (with its connotations of backroom dealing) and into the clear open air of the streets.
Blue State, a group exhibition currently on view at Night Gallery, meditates on the color blue: its various connotations, how it manifests in politics, and its role in the visual language of expedition, evoking both sky and sea.
Mr. Baird was a teacher and administrator in New York City's public school system when he began writing and speaking about the fraught connotations of the term Negro as the dominant way to describe people of African descent.
This appears to be what happened to Philando Castile: He was apparently stopped over a broken taillight, but the officer reportedly thought Castile was a robbery suspect due to his "wide-set nose" (which carries obvious racist connotations).
Reaction to the suggestive acronyms has been mixed and has launched a conversation about whether the name of the 31-year-running NIPS—which has sexual connotations and is also a racist slur for Japanese people—should be changed.
"In Mexico city, car ownership is an extremely valued asset because it also has class connotations," she said, while politicians must equally shun the "quick wins" of building a new road and instead focus on improving underlying traffic systems.
Rosé, lacking any of the traditionally masculine connotations of drinks like whiskey or gin, has presented itself as the perfect blank canvas, ready to be stuffed with marketers' conceptions of what it means to be a 21st-century woman.
He had been born Edwin Finley Taliaferro in Detroit, but like many who discovered black nationalist movements in the 1960s, he relinquished his European names and took African ones—each, in his case, with connotations of anti-colonial resistance.
There's a deep and revealing irony in an Israeli thinker glossing over the anti-Semitic connotations of the word "globalist": It demonstrates how Hazony has built a politically and intellectually "respectable" apparatus for defending the far-right political vision.
The German word for this effort is Vergangenheitsbewältigung — coming to terms with the past — and it carries connotations of a painful history that citizens would rather not confront but that must be confronted in order not to be repeated.
The problem with this notion is that none of these revelations has anything to do with the so-called "deep state," even allowing for the fraught and imprecise connotations that this term has acquired in recent national political discourse.
Hearing Voices Jerome Groopman's article on the phenomenon of talking to oneself and hearing voices made me think that psychologists would benefit from a new term for the phenomenon, one without the negative connotations of "hallucination" ("Books," January 9th).
"Massoud, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Toronto, opened up in The Daily Beast profile on his goal to find roles that don&apost "bring negative connotations because of the color of their skin or ethnicity.
When Lagerfeld took over in 1983, his job was to reinvigorate a flagging house that had developed rather stuffy, uncool connotations; he did so with irreverence and aplomb, all while centering his collections on Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's original designs.
It speaks to the appalling collective ignorance of the horrors committed in British history that the owner, The Breakfast Group, was unaware that a bar specialising in Caribbean rum should try as hard as possible to avoid any connotations of slavery.
Beyond the unfairly negative old-lady connotations (which, by the way, are also unwarranted; there is nothing wrong with being an old lady), the pore-clogging properties and heavy, musty scents were really what gave cold cream its bad rap.
The strangest thing is how an object like this one can be stripped down from its connotations of shame and strangeness through daily interactions and proximity, something I noticed in the different relationships the workers and developers had with the Fleshlight.
The thinking being: the impact of that game's most memorable scenes is so intrinsically tied to the music that plays at the same time, that changing it could completely alter the connotations of the composition, the collage of sound and vision.
Why it matters: Barr's claim that "spying" by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign "did occur" during a Senate testimony last month caused significant backlash from Democrats who believed he was purposely using a term with explosive connotations.
On the other hand, the committee said, Byrd was "a product of his time," that his name "carries positive connotations and memories" for many, and that changing it could create "instability" by allowing other buildings to meet the same fate.
JORDAN HARPURMontreal, Canada Now that I have at last read the word "fart" in your newspaper, ("Letters", March 5th) I feel at liberty to ask our cousins in America, what exactly are the connotations, for them, of the word "trump"?
To me, the name of the company always carried comic-book villain connotations, but now the startup community at large probably shares my reptilian response of misgivings when they hear the word, owing to its very public and protracted implosion.
Intentional echo or not, the similar shot in The Founder has the same connotations: Here is a man who is hopeful but desperate, trying desperately to hang onto his business, his home, his wife (Laura Dern), and his self-respect.
Then as now, inspired by the pace of her more remote life, she wanted to re-examine the negative connotations that slowness has taken on in a culture that values the technological, the futuristic and the fast above all else.
Lingering in the warm, brightly lit lobby, where a wooden stage is set up for performances of kagura (a traditional Shinto dance native to the region), one can forget the immediate presence of bureaucracy, and all its connotations of willful obscurity.
Tartan, with all its connotations of Christmas, school uniforms and marching across the moor to bagpipes, may speak to a certain tradition, but it's not a stereotypical American one, which makes it uncomfortably close to the novelty tie for many viewers.
News outlets reported Saturday that the party was demonstrating a "caucus tool" (the party discouraged volunteers from referring to it as an app, presumably due to the term's new negative connotations) to be preloaded onto iPads distributed to precinct chairs.
"Bloomberg just has bad connotations that come along with him," Leah Garwood said as she waited in line with her husband on Sunday in Las Vegas for roughly 45 minutes to vote for a different billionaire, Tom Steyer of California.
Her upcoming performance at Oxy Arts is titled "X" and investigates the numerous meanings and connotations the letter has: from the X chromosome and a symbol of death, to the Roman numeral ten and the X-shaped harness used in BDSM.
On another part of the spectrum are producers who are subversive but not single-minded, who reject being called natural winemakers, either because they dislike the term's connotations or they do not live up to their personal definition of the genre.
While the data helps dispel some negative connotations and assumptions about who likes Rick and Morty, the Hulu stats confirmed one hypothesis: People who watch Rick and Morty are night goblins, with 11PM to 1AM EST winning the most popular viewing time slot.
Riot's detailed next steps then included expanding its diversity team; making sure words like "gamer" aren't misused with sexist connotations during hiring and in internal meetings; hiring outside consultants to audit the company's practices; setting up an anonymous hotline; and expanding staff training.
Though the sculpture was much derided at the time for its warlike or imperial connotations—Roszak depicts the bird poised on the edge of the building ready for flight, as if to hunt—it is an angular, jagged take on the national emblem.
Renaming Google Research into Google AI is a specific change that brings a division whose name might have previously had more general and academic connotations ("research") into one that is now named much more specifically, and with an end product in mind ("AI").
"This creates negative connotations, and I don't think that's a very productive way of looking at art because influence is always dynamic," he adds, using the example of Pablo Picasso who was inspired by African art which helped shaped his Cubism style.
While Woods was on the course in the final round on his way to a 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters, his first major title, Zoeller made remarks with racist connotations about what Woods might serve at the following year's Champions Dinner.
People flooded the comment section of Vogue's Instagram post showing off Kendall's puffed-out hairstyle, and openly speculated about the connotations and intentions behind booking a white girl for the gig ... with some calling the move racist and demeaning to black women.
While Tlaib's outfit choice today is clearly sentimental, Palestinian pride on a national stage before a Congress with a history of funding and supporting Israel more than any other in the world (over $121 billion to date) is not without political connotations.
For many people, a dinner at Taco Bell has both nostalgic and contemporary connotations: of rushed drive-through family meals, the late-night munchies, the thing you get both when you can't afford anything else and when you just don't want anything else.
In an open letter to the German EU commissioner who first mentioned the rule-of-law procedure, Zbigniew Ziobro, the justice minister, alluded to the second world war and argued that Germans talking about overseeing Poland carry the "worst possible connotations" among Poles.
Feminist slogan t-shirts—at times made by a poorly paid female labor force—have become tiresome to many, but a beret retains connotations of political activism: worn by the artists, activists, and guerilla fighters of this world, from Che Guevara to Basquiat.
Shannon Morgan, a resident of Leesburg, N.J., applied for the license plate in November 2013 but was told her application had been denied because the plate "may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency," according to court papers posted online last week.
Omar has apologized for her rhetoric and vowed to do better to avoid language with historical connotations about Jews, while the House voted to pass a nondescript resolution condemning all forms of hatred that had initially targeted solely anti-Semitism and her comments.
CNN contributor and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni questioned whether the term was being used as a "dog whistle" by Trump, but said the president is a "sloppy speaker" and may not be thinking through all the connotations associated with it.
But, whether you first wore them as a toddler (shoutout, Oshkosh B'Gosh), as an ode to TLC, or to your first Coachella trip, it's time to put all previous connotations aside and reconsider slipping back into a pair of overalls this summer. Why?
Though the word "ballerina" really means only "dancing woman" in its original Italian, it has been inflated by over a century of Russian ballet mystique to acquire multiple connotations of authority, many of which Ms. Teuscher seems to exemplify, quietly but surely.
After spending some time weighing the racial connotations of the name, she made a decision: "I would make this name my own, and make anyone who sees it, hears it, and relates it to me understand that it's about respect," she explains.
In Al Qadiri's film, phrases like "it's beautiful/…so beautiful it rivaled the roses/for the heart becomes lost/in a world of beauty" blend into fiery clouds of smoke, evoking both demonic and divine connotations, and referencing the Zoroastrian worship of fire.
When he then named in particular two Jewish congressmen and four congresswomen of color — Jerry Nadler of New York, Adam Schiff of California and the quartet that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — the racist connotations of the "savage" slur buzzed.
The funding brings Skylo's total raised to $116 million, following a $13 million Series A. This new round was led by SoftBank Group (which at this point carries a complicated set of connotations) and includes existing investors DCM and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.
More seriously, the New York Times was able to track phones that went to Planned Parenthood and see how long they stayed; they could surely see how long phones rested in other places that have specific medical or political or cultural connotations.
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"When companies approach social issues that might have political connotations to them, normally (they should) do it with great caution and in a way that will echo the beliefs and concerns of the majority of their consumers, while trying to avoid controversy," said Ruvio.
My colleague Tom Warren already detailed the deleterious effects of Chrome's outsize influence, with web developers optimizing and coding specifically for Chrome (and Google encouraging the practice), with unhappy connotations of the crummy old days when Internet Explorer was the dominant browser for the web.
A woman you've been exposed to for 30 years, with many negative connotations to boot; most recently having potentially lied about sending classified material from a cockamamie basement home server, who is called "crooked" from opponents and untrustworthy from members of her own party?
That term comes with many connotations, but within esports' network of fighting games—better known as the Fighting Game Community, or FGC—a VIP room mostly amounts to a quiet area where competitors can get away from the hustle and bustle of packed venues.
"It has connotations of very traditional luxury," said Isabelle Watton of Beckford Silks, a British textile company that offers silk velvet — made of 20 percent silk and 80 percent viscose — in 25 colors and whose clients include Prada and the British designers Vin + Omi.
While it is meant to be a crucial tool for combating market stress, it has for decades carried negative connotations, prompting banks to avoid borrowing from it out of fear that doing so will make them look as if they are on shaky footing.
I would suggest there's a difference between disagreeing with a political/policy action or position versus a situation where highly charged words and phrases were used publicly by a candidate with racial connotations that offended key stakeholders and are at odds with our company's values.
"The focus is now shifting to the inverted U.S. bond yield curve, which has negative connotations, while implying the U.S. economy is heading towards what was only a few weeks ago an improbable economic slowdown," said Stephen Innes, head of trading for APAC at Oanda.
But the word has also been the subject of an ongoing reclamation, applied to women like Meredith Blake, a prime example of the best connotations of the term: an unrepentantly aggressive, stylish woman who knows what she wants and doesn't take guff from anyone.
"The focus is now shifting to the inverted U.S. bond yield curve, which has negative connotations, while implying the U.S. economy is heading towards what was, only a few weeks ago, an improbable economic slowdown," said Stephen Innes, head of trading for APAC at Oanda.
Vecino didn't swish her hips or perform anything that might be read as seductive, or really even feminine, but the fact of a naked female form, and all its associated historical and societal connotations, sprang immediately into play at the moment of her disrobing.
Shadow banking, with its pejorative connotations, is a term the FSB no longer uses as it seeks to emphasise how the sector can provide valuable credit to the economy as banks rein in risk-taking to cut down on how much expensive capital they must hold.
"People want protein in different ways… soy protein has been around, but there are some negative connotations with soy protein, so I think vegetable protein is going to be the next trend that consumers want in their crackers, in their pasta and in their rice," Gordon said.
It's another prequel — a word with loaded connotations for a lot of old-school Star Wars fans — and it's essentially a launch for Disney's ambitious new plan to have some kind of Star Wars spinoff in theaters every year for as long as viewers will cooperate.
Because of the emotions it elicits in others, and the way they are marketed as medical devices, a wheelchair often carries quite negative connotations, which, when you pause to think about it — as this story has forced me to do — makes absolutely no sense at all.
Dia Lacina, a Native American writer, highlighted the game's use of terms like "braves"—which is the collective noun used for the Nora's warriors—"savages", "primal" and "tribes" as being, if not disrespectful, then certainly not afforded due consideration given their historical connotations for Native Americans.
I cannot speak for male spouses, but I can imagine the connotations of the word dependent lend themselves to false stereotypes of reversed gender roles and masculinity, particularly for those spouses who assume primary domestic or childcare roles in order to support a female spouse's career.
" Jones explains that she wanted to distance herself from what she calls the "brightly painted cafes and hemp trousers connotations" that the word "vegetarian" can have: "I felt like the food I was eating was vibrant and interesting and modern and what my friends wanted to eat.
" He contends in a statement that this "implied an intent on the appellant's part to shield and sequester his activities" and "implied moral depravity, callousness and culpability on the appellant's part because of the inherent connotations of filth, garbage, detritus and criminal activity frequently associated with dumpsters.
But when I do get my massages, I feel like a human being, not just a woman with breasts and all of the loaded sexual connotations that comes with them; they become the antidote to my breast insecurities, and I feel happier, and healed, in my body.
The phrase "inner city" is often used to suggest that the historical image and the modern place are one and the same — or even that the "inner city" is still a meaningfully identifiable place at all, with clearly implied demographics (black, poor) and connotations (violence, decay).
But it's more thrilling to watch Pryor's disconnected parts and consider their connotations: the head that housed that bananas brain, the lithe fingers that pointed out our divergences and commonalities, the mouth that got him into so much trouble, the crotch that got him into even more.
The 49-year-old said the proposed new name for the party – "Rassemblement National" (National Rally or Union) ­– would underline its willingness to work with others, a step necessary to make it into government, and to shed the racist connotations attached to the anti-immigration party.
Turandot doesn't have the same racist connotations as Puccini's other opera, "Madame Butterly," that is about a Japanese woman who kills herself so that her child with an American Naval officer can be adopted by his white wife, but still, Wilson's decision to include Puccini here baffles.
"Advertising has grown to have so many more negative connotations to the word … because advertising and in this world of ... fake news and toxic content that the consumer is grappling with … advertising has typically lacked the authenticity in a lot of ways, that consumers are after," she said.
The "X" cross shape is known as "batsu" in Japanese, and it carries similar connotations as it does in the West — no one wants a bunch of Xs on their exam results — but the "maru" circle shape has a similar meaning to the check mark in Western culture.
Two running gags in Bad Santa involve Willie regularly pissing his pants and seeking out anal sex, which is meant to be funny but also has explicit connotations: that his drinking has made him incontinent and that he's avoiding vaginas and the intimacy (and kids) they potentially bring.
As for the name itself, it has produced some tumult as people argue over the linguistic and literary subtext; the intricacies of the Japanese script and the history of the syllables and how they are represented make a variety of interpretations possible, with different political and philosophical connotations.
That characterization of the crime, "implied an intent on the appellant's part to shield and sequester his activities" and "implied moral depravity, callousness and culpability on the appellant's part because of the inherent connotations of filth, garbage, detritus and criminal activity frequently associated with dumpsters," the document states.
Words may have connotations, but it is unassailable that he rushed for 5,953 yards at Ferris State, the most by a quarterback in N.C.A.A. history, and that only three others — not two, not four — have won the Harlon Hill Trophy, awarded to Division II's top player, multiple times.
Though she doesn't deny it as something that affected her process, she also rightly pointed out the connotations this has when you're a woman: So rather than offer up the gossipy tidbits that tabloids might want, she spoke about being in the final stages of finalising the album.
" The appeal said the use of the phrase "implied an intent on the appellant's part to shield" his activities from others and "implied moral depravity, callousness, and culpability on the appellant's part because of the inherent connotations of filth, garbage, detritus and criminal activity frequently generally associated with Dumpsters.
He noted in his letter to the governor that some of the cadets "were aware of the connotations associated with the gesture, that they were uncomfortable with the practice ... and/or that they only followed what they perceived to be an order" because they feared they wouldn't graduate.

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