(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) At least five terms which connote power of muscular performances are used today.
(3) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(4) Such words, spoken by a German politician, have the worst possible connotations for Poles.
(5) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(6) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(7) So there were no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice?
(8) Certainly, "celebrity", even though it's craved by many, has negative connotations.
(9) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(10) Two main techniques are the study of longitudinal data (where time-spaced studies on the same population are available) and of age-ranked, cross-sectional data (where the lack of declining stature with age connotes the absence of a secular trens).
(11) Descriptive, stipulative, and connotative definitions of role strain are derived, and necessary and relevant properties are proposed.
(12) Because its histologic morphology bears a striking resemblance to Brunn's nests and because the term papilloma of the urinary bladder connotes potential malignant change, we propose the designation brunnian adenoma.
(13) One of the reasons that mindfulness is really catching on is that it can be delivered in a way that is entirely secular, stripped of any religious connotations, making it entirely acceptable to the wider population.
(14) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(15) Elevated plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily connote elevated tumor tissue levels of CEA, and conversely, normal plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily mean low levels of tumor CEA.
(16) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(17) Patients expecting to receive psychotropic drug gave significantly more often positive emotional connotations about the presumed modes of action of these drugs than patients without such an expectation.
(18) Traditions and customs related to the consumption of alcohol still have a strong positive connotation in France.
(19) In the introduction the author submits association, connotations, and definitions of basic ethical terms, along with a classification of ethics.
(20) It’s obviously got some racial connotations to it, we’ve got our head in the sand and we don’t think it does.
Hotheaded
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Getty Images Böhnhardt is said to have been more hotheaded.
(2) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
(4) In the next stage, more Israelis will take to the streets and take the law into their own hands, and we have no shortage of hotheads,” warned Alex Fishman, security correspondent for Israel’s top-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth.
(5) Make the opposition work for their concessions, and when the deal is struck make them feel that they have done well.” But some reflections may reassure sceptics worried that the British team is led by hotheads.
(6) In words apparently aimed at the UK, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, described the missiles as a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(7) Shogo Suzuki, an expert on Sino-Japanese relations and visiting associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, said: "All it takes is one hothead to pull the trigger and the whole thing spirals out of control.
(8) In Moscow, the foreign ministry said Lavrov had asked Kerry to "pressure Kiev to stop hotheads from provoking a bloody conflict and to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to strictly fulfil their obligations".
(9) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
(10) Wise and venerable consultants, offering sympathy for those hotheaded kids, do actually have a horse in the race themselves.
(11) Michelle Dockery – now known all over the world as the frosty Lady Mary – has a successful career as a jazz singer and has performed with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern , who plays her on-screen mother, the Countess of Grantham.
(12) Analysts, law enforcement sources and cartel contacts agree generational change is contributing to the unease: traditionalists often point to the hotheaded and exhibitionist tendencies of such narco “juniors”, whose inherited power and wealth contrast with the rags-to-riches struggles of their fathers.
(13) Prosecutors allege he intentionally killed her after a fight in the early hours of 14 February 2013 and have sought to paint him as a hothead with an inflated sense of entitlement and an obsession with firearms.
(14) Lippi threw his energies into creating a compact group of players with no room for hotheads, but pundits were quick to point out that the team he fielded against Slovakia showed no sign of team spirit.
(15) Abedi began wearing more traditional Arab dress and was seen by one neighbour saying Islamic prayers loudly in the street, but he remained hotheaded and volatile, picking fights with neighbours over issues such as where their cars were parked.
(16) It was the Vienna convention that in 1981 protected a young hotheaded diplomat by the name of Moussa Koussa , who publicly approved the planned assassination of Libyan dissidents.
(17) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(18) But it'll be hard to beat opening for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival last year with my band, Sadie And The Hotheads .
(19) My new favourite Game Of Thrones castmember is now Cersei Lannister, for whom I didn't care much last time, but now she's out of the shadow of that wheezing hothead King Robert, is growlingly sublime.
(20) But we know that both Kennedy and Khrushchev believed it was important to de-escalate, important to control the hotheads in each of their governments, and important enough to risk their own leadership to do so.