How To Use Connotative In A Sentence

  • Stories are never just arguments; they work most effectively by being neither didactic nor definitive: they attract and hold our attention because they are connotative not denotative.
  • I remember that 90s rule to create characters for Image Comics (from progressiveboink): 1 - take a pre-existing Marvel or DC Comics character that fat guys would like (The Punisher) 2 - change his name to couple a negatively connotative word (blood, die, death) with a second but completely unrelated negatively connotative word (shot, hard, blow) 3 - draw scribbles all over him Matthew Vaughn’s Next Film to be Adaptation of Bloodshot? | /Film
  • The suppression of colour made it possible to control the aesthetic qualities of the picture and helped to structure its connotative meaning.
  • His lectures were rhetorical, emotive and connotative.
  • Employing the concept of ‘tribe’ is beset with denotative and connotative baggage.
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  • Stories are never just arguments; they work most effectively by being neither didactic nor definitive: they attract and hold our attention because they are connotative not denotative.
  • I sometimes stood shoulder to shoulder with meaningful people I have referred to in my lifetime as "colored," then "negro," then "black," now "African-American" -- connotative acknowledgment in those words of the evolving social changes in our country, despite the occasional throwbacks. Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then
  • The suppression of colour made it possible to control the aesthetic qualities of the picture and helped to structure its connotative meaning.
  • Provocations include not only the lack of grammar, but highly disjunctive and often obscure use of line breaks which abandon denotative and connotative functions of words in favour of half swallowed or choked sounds.
  • Even more generously, he helps me (and with a helper like White I need no hinderers) to say what he wants me to mean by "connotative," but what I did not say and did not mean when I used the term. Letting Go
  • The label connotative is inserted to indicate those words and meanings that come from a source other than the name in the headword but are nonetheless closely associated with it. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 2
  • A focus on language, connotative and denotative meaning, is especially important in the cultural adaptation process.
  • Instead, each of us is to use the denotative and connotative meanings of these terms with which we are most comfortable.
  • A focus on language, connotative and denotative meaning, is especially important in the cultural adaptation process.
  • Personal names have both denotative and connotative functions — shorthand for a bundle of associations attached to a person. IPSC: trademark and the consumer
  • Instead I found an illtempered, confused set of generalizations about what analytical philosophers believe about history, distortion and misrepresentation of my views, and a peroration on the "wholly denotative" language of science and the "connotative" language of history that should win Hexter some kind of prize for philosophical incompetence. Letting Go
  • [Footnote: Originally 'connotative' was used in the same sense in which we have used 'attributive,' for a word which directly signifies the presence of an attribute and indirectly applies to a subject. Deductive Logic
  • I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using "etymological" grounds for justification. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • ‘Think of all the sexually connotative songs you know,’ said a pal.
  • If Hexter were more philosophically literate than he appears to be, he might say that when he uses the word "connotative" he has in mind what some philosophers mean by the word "emotive. Letting Go
  • Provocations include not only the lack of grammar, but highly disjunctive and often obscure use of line breaks which abandon denotative and connotative functions of words in favour of half swallowed or choked sounds.
  • I would like to use the phrase "family values", but that term has become loaded with connotative political baggage. christoph says: A Different Extremism… On the Rise? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
  • CONNOTATIVE words, those that suggest more than they say, have more power than ordinary words -- "She _let_ herself be married" expresses more than "She _married_. The Art of Public Speaking
  • The term antisocial personality is often used interchangeably with psychopath or sociopath and is connotative of many forms of deviant behavior.
  • Part I goes on to lay out a fairly detailed theory of terms, including the distinctions between (a) categorematic and syncategorematic terms, (b) abstract and concrete terms, and (c) absolute and connotative terms. William of Ockham
  • Romantic fanciful thoughts and connotative and elegant idiosyncrasy unfold rich an tender feeling.

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