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There's a derogatory connotation that comes with the word selfish, as if somebody is making this decision typically for a pleasurable reason, maybe nearsighted is a better way of saying that their focus becomes really limited down to what's immediately in front of them. And they're not able to see the larger context of the history of their life, the relationships and the dimensionality of things. – Michael Roeske	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That’s not what that was about, i think that was taken out of context, just like you’re taking it out of context and trying to make it a story for yourself, which has a negative connotation to it, which I don’t appreciate. It was meant to be something different than that. The fact it’s a distraction or you’re bringing it up is not something I want to be talking about. – Tom Brady	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Conflict transformation rather than...conflict resolution. To me, the latter suggests going back to a previous state of affairs, and has a connotation that there may be a winner or a loser. [Conflict transformation has] the opportunity to create something new. – Brene Brown	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque). – Vladan Kuzmanović	added by anonymous 2 years ago
The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation. – Vladan Kuzmanovic	added by vladan_k 3 years ago
It puts a different connotation on how you're swinging. – Bruce Jensen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They used to call it NAFTA, we're going to call it the United States-Mexico trade agreement. We're going to get rid of NAFTA because it has a bad connotation. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If I ’m being very honest, it did take on a much deeper connotation for me, for me it has been 15 years of ‘ Survivorman ’ and so to have Logan with me after what we had just been through, barely 18 months ago, it creates something so impactful, something more meaningful to me. Stroud was happy to share his passions with his son, but at times, the experience was stressful. I ’m out here doing what I ’m really good at, but I have my son with me, which creates a whole other level of stress, and on top of it I am then rewarded with the fact that this is my son in full survival mode in all definitions of that phrase. And so it became a very meaningful experience to be out there with him. – Les Stroud	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He was basically juxtaposing pictures that seemed to tell a story when put side by side, either one dancer's movement led into the other picture or maybe there was a relationship between the dancers' shapes. ... He had a design strategy of pairing images that became very exciting, because the connotation of (one) picture could be expanded by the juxtaposition to another picture. – Lois Greenfield	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think sex has a bad connotation for two reasons. On the religious aspect, some people feel that they are not supposed to be giving their virginity away, and I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor…. – Jill Dictrow	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
MileHi is a very good name; it's very catchy, obviously it's got a connotation, but the idea of the app was really around business or networking, not dating. – Richard Lloyd	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With this particular flag, the connotation is that because it represents the Confederacy that fought on the side of succession and slavery it can be viewed as a racist symbol. – National Park Service	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's got a certain connotation, this attack is slightly xenophobic, I believe. – Socialist Party head Jean-Christophe Cambadelis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I noticed an actor and her husband on [a recent cover of a celebrity tabloid] that said In Couples' Therapy! The clear message is, 'Oh, their marriage is ending.' There's such a negative connotation, in my previous relationship, we went to couples' therapy at the end, and that's often too late. You can't go after nine years and start figuring out what patterns you're in. – Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Public knowledge about spousal loss in old age has in general a negative connotation -- bereavement is usually seen as an individual issue, however bereaved individuals vary considerably in their reactions to loss, and little is known on how the historical context contributes to adaptation to spousal loss. – Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music, every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music -- hit records with the n-word in it. You can't be upset when somebody says it. You can't. It's hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don't want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn't use it at all, period. – The Trinidad-born rapper	Found on CNN 9 years ago

There's a derogatory connotation that comes with the word selfish, as if somebody is making this decision typically for a pleasurable reason, maybe nearsighted is a better way of saying that their focus becomes really limited down to what's immediately in front of them. And they're not able to see the larger context of the history of their life, the relationships and the dimensionality of things.

– Michael Roeske

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s not what that was about, i think that was taken out of context, just like you’re taking it out of context and trying to make it a story for yourself, which has a negative connotation to it, which I don’t appreciate. It was meant to be something different than that. The fact it’s a distraction or you’re bringing it up is not something I want to be talking about.

– Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Conflict transformation rather than...conflict resolution. To me, the latter suggests going back to a previous state of affairs, and has a connotation that there may be a winner or a loser. [Conflict transformation has] the opportunity to create something new.

– Brene Brown

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque).

– Vladan Kuzmanović

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.

– Vladan Kuzmanovic

added by vladan_k
3 years ago

It puts a different connotation on how you're swinging.

– Bruce Jensen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They used to call it NAFTA, we're going to call it the United States-Mexico trade agreement. We're going to get rid of NAFTA because it has a bad connotation.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If I ’m being very honest, it did take on a much deeper connotation for me, for me it has been 15 years of ‘ Survivorman ’ and so to have Logan with me after what we had just been through, barely 18 months ago, it creates something so impactful, something more meaningful to me. Stroud was happy to share his passions with his son, but at times, the experience was stressful. I ’m out here doing what I ’m really good at, but I have my son with me, which creates a whole other level of stress, and on top of it I am then rewarded with the fact that this is my son in full survival mode in all definitions of that phrase. And so it became a very meaningful experience to be out there with him.

– Les Stroud

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He was basically juxtaposing pictures that seemed to tell a story when put side by side, either one dancer's movement led into the other picture or maybe there was a relationship between the dancers' shapes. ... He had a design strategy of pairing images that became very exciting, because the connotation of (one) picture could be expanded by the juxtaposition to another picture.

– Lois Greenfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think sex has a bad connotation for two reasons. On the religious aspect, some people feel that they are not supposed to be giving their virginity away, and I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor….

– Jill Dictrow

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

MileHi is a very good name; it's very catchy, obviously it's got a connotation, but the idea of the app was really around business or networking, not dating.

– Richard Lloyd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With this particular flag, the connotation is that because it represents the Confederacy that fought on the side of succession and slavery it can be viewed as a racist symbol.

– National Park Service

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's got a certain connotation, this attack is slightly xenophobic, I believe.

– Socialist Party head Jean-Christophe Cambadelis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I noticed an actor and her husband on [a recent cover of a celebrity tabloid] that said In Couples' Therapy! The clear message is, 'Oh, their marriage is ending.' There's such a negative connotation, in my previous relationship, we went to couples' therapy at the end, and that's often too late. You can't go after nine years and start figuring out what patterns you're in.

– Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Public knowledge about spousal loss in old age has in general a negative connotation -- bereavement is usually seen as an individual issue, however bereaved individuals vary considerably in their reactions to loss, and little is known on how the historical context contributes to adaptation to spousal loss.

– Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music, every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music -- hit records with the n-word in it. You can't be upset when somebody says it. You can't. It's hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don't want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn't use it at all, period.

– The Trinidad-born rapper

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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