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  • But I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine.†   (source)
  • You mustn't hum when you eat-not that animals do-for it connotes a certain primitive idiocy.†   (source)
  • He chose his possessions to connote wealth and superiority.
  • SEVERAL HOURS later when Ariane crossed the green to sign the nurses' muster sheet, her face was red and her hair disheveled in a fashion that connoted neither the pressing-down of sleep nor the action of the wind, but something quite different.†   (source)
  • If you or someone you love is named Cindy or Brenda and is over, say, forty, and feels that those names did not formerly connote a low-education family, you are right.†   (source)
  • There was a screen, connoting dying, around Johnny's bed.†   (source)
  • Nobody as yet had really acknowledged to himself what the disease connoted.†   (source)
  • Toohey had written: # "Greatness is an exaggeration, and like all exaggerations of dimension it connotes at once the necessary corollary of emptiness.†   (source)
  • And now the cup, the ring and two unironed waiter's aprons at home were the only concrete objects left to connote that a man had once lived.†   (source)
  • He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity.†   (source)
  • The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.†   (source)
  • She had never in her life looked so much like the lily her name connoted as she did in that pallid morning light.†   (source)
  • There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.†   (source)
  • …in their playtime, or with lesson-books to be conned; emblems of a past that had sunk down and well-nigh vanished under the earth, that lay by the water's edge now, like an idler taking the air, yet giving me strong food for thought, making the name of Combray connote to me not the little town of to-day only, but an historic city vastly different, seizing and holding my imagination by the remote, incomprehensible features which it half-concealed beneath a spangled veil of buttercups.†   (source)
  • He only said this to be cheery, he did not realize that "white" has no more to do with a colour than "God save the King" with a god, and that it is the height of impropriety to consider what it does connote.†   (source)
  • …me in the country; a memory which I had retained, but kept out of sight, because, since I had seen Gilberte again, Swann had become to me pre-eminently her father, and no longer the Combray Swann; as the ideas which, nowadays, I made his name connote were different from the ideas in the system of which it was formerly comprised, which I utilised not at all now when I had occasion to think of him, he had become a new, another person; still I attached him by an artificial thread,…†   (source)
  • It is clear from the above that a. main part of Homer's design has been to tell a massive tale, to expand his main theme, throwing up unexpected diversions, obstacles, and side-stories until his account of the "Anger of Achilles" takes on all the weight and scope and dense detail that the word "epic" connotes.†   (source)
  • Some translate "wrath" to connote its archaic severity, and Robert Graves carried this logic to the end in titling his translation "The Wrath of Achilles.†   (source)
  • But /as mad as a March hare/ is English, and connotes insanity, not mere anger.†   (source)
  • To an Englishman the word connotes sweetness, and so, if he be of the lower orders, he may apply [Pg130] it to his sweetheart.†   (source)
  • /Funny/ connotes the whole range of the unusual; /hard/ indicates every shade of difficulty; /nice/ is everything satisfactory; /bully/ is a superlative of almost limitless scope.†   (source)
  • /His/, after a noun or pronoun connoting both sexes, often sounds inept, and /his-or-her/ is intolerably clumsy.†   (source)
  • It is not only used as a general synonym for all adjectives and adverbs connoting satisfaction, as in /to feel good/, /to be treated good/, /to sleep good/, but also as a reinforcement to other adjectives and adverbs, as in "I hit him /good/ and hard" and "I am /good/ and tired."†   (source)
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