(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.
Madman
Definition:
(n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of Khan's murder accusation, Anwar replied: "It's a madman's rant.
(2) As with Breivik, politicians will be quick to the thesis of the lone madman.
(3) and you're just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman."
(4) But to dismiss this as a case of a lone "madman" would be a mistake.
(5) The saintly madman is a familiar character in South Asia.
(6) Unless that new song is supposed to have a bit in the middle that sounds like a musical birthday card that was designed by a madman and doesn't have very much battery left.
(7) I ask him if he minds not getting the extreme gigs, the starving madman roles that go to Daniel Day-Lewis and the Oscar squad.
(8) And how much easier would it be today, in the era of television, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin to pervert the spirit of a whole nation?
(9) 6 December Rio Ferdinand criticises Moyes' policy of leaving it late to pick his teams, telling BT Sport: "It turns you into a madman."
(10) He told Podemos’s followers to dream and, like that noble madman Don Quixote, “take their dreams seriously”.
(11) If the structures of democracy are strong – you can have a madman or madwoman for four years or even eight, and then he or she is gone, and the nation’s freedoms live.
(12) Plus "In your heart, you know he's right," the 1964 ad for insane madman loser Barry Goldwater .
(13) Don’t think for one minute I was going in every day and behaving like a madman.
(14) It was a big-budget popcorn movie with a subversive message at its core that Padilha says he fought for “like a madman”.
(15) The nature of the arms trade suggests that they will soon be circulating in the intricate webs of the shadow world, available to any insurgent force; any "terrorist" group; any madman with a plan.
(16) The psychiatrist has been depicted in widely varying ways--as madman, as a powerful force for tinkering with the soul, and as a wonder worker who cures patients by uncovering a single traumatic event.
(17) The cross-cultural consideration of our Psychiatric Epidemiology Program outlined the profile of the madman and his discourse as both mirror and enigma of his cultural community.
(18) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
(19) Nicholson drew barbs at the time for what some critics felt was the over-the-top nature of his performance in the final half-hour, when he degenerates from a taunting madman into a screaming, grunting beast with an axe.
(20) "This is not the work of a soldier; this is not the work of madman: it is the work of their government.