In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Here the term " races " is used as an alternative for " varieties " and does not carry the modern connotation of human races — the first use in the book refers to " the several races, for instance, of the cabbage " and proceeds to a discussion of " the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants ".

Although identical in meaning, " LGBT " may have a more feminist connotation than " GLBT " as it places the " L " ( for " lesbian ") first.

The first connotation connected to the syllable " para " was paralysis or paraplegia.

In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

The first recorded example in English is in 1449, Lowland Scots, denoting an itinerant musician, usually with a contemptuous connotation.

This negative connotation reached beyond the boundaries of folklore to influence poets such as Ivan M. Vazov in the poem Pirates, first published in 1915.

William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) was the first to use the word " demon " for Maxwell's concept, in the journal Nature in 1874, and implied that he intended the mediating, rather than malevolent, connotation of the word.

The term, " first year " is the more commonly used and connotation free term for students in their first year.

The now most common meaning of weird, " odd, strange ", is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentuous ( especially in the collocation weird and wonderful ), but by the early 20th century increasingly applied to everyday situations.

The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.

The Greek term carried no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods but was clearly a bad word to Plato, and on account of the decisive influence of political philosophy its negative connotations only increased down into the Hellenistic period, becoming synonymous with " Authenteo "-another term which carried authoritarian connotations around the turn of the first century A. D. During the seventh and sixth centuries BC, tyranny was often looked upon as an intermediate stage between narrow oligarchy and more democratic forms of polity.

It is in the nature of grammatical conventions evolving over time that it is difficult to establish when they first became widely accepted, but both greater and lesser in these instances have over time become mere adjectives ( or adverbial constructs ), so losing their comparative connotation.

It was first thought " Tramp " wouldn't be acceptable because of the sexual connotation associated with the word (" The Lady is a Tramp "), but as Walt Disney approved it was considered safe.

The word demagogue, meaning a leader of the common people, first arose in ancient Greece, originally with no negative connotation, but eventually came to mean a troublesome kind of leader who occasionally arose in Athenian democracy.

It has been used in two connotations, the first in an ethnic or supra-ethnic connotation, and the second as a term for citizens of the former Yugoslavia.

While the term propaganda bears a mostly negative connotation in modern English language, this did not exist in the early 20th century, when the word " propaganda " was first coined.

The name does not seem to have acquired the intentional, open racist connotation until the first half of the 20th century — possibly in defiance of protests made by African Americans.

The term is frequently used in connotation with the introduction of television, which made it possible for the first time to see live ( see live television ) what was happening at another place.

The word gendarmerie had gained a negative connotation, so William called the new force " marechaussée " ( he forgot the first acute accent in the document ).

Louis Hjelmslev ( 1899-1965 ) therefore proposes that although the function of signification may be a single process, denotation is the first step, and connotation the second.

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

This type of borrowing can be reduced to a minimum if quarterly installment payment of taxes is instituted and the first payment placed near the opening of the fiscal year.

What type of action can hope to win public support, first in this country and then abroad??

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

You can save all that shimming time if you set your windows in one, two, three order -- first the stud on one side, then the window, then the stud on the other side.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).

We observe first that no line, l, can meet its image except at one of its intersections with Q.

But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

The child in the primary grades can play harmoniously with one companion, but his desire to be first in everything gets him into trouble when the group gets larger ; ;

But before we can do this, we must first find answers to our original questions 1 and 2 ; ;

And the same thing, more or less, can be said of the contents of Picasso's first collage.

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

These theoretical relationships are more clearly illustrated in Fig. 7 and their sum can be seen to correlate in form with practical measurements made with the Hesiometer as illustrated in the first portion of Fig. 5 for the cutting mechanism.

Although the first polyether foams on the market had to be produced by the two-step prepolymer method, today, thanks to new catalysts, they can be produced by a one-shot technique.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.