In sum , three connotations of my chinese medication simile are : first to avoid radical shock therapy by applying gradual step by step treatment ; second not to rely on the miracle effect made by one approach ; third to conduct dynamic adjustment and try in trials on the basis of feedback .
But as stuart carroll , a professor of history at york university , points out in his entertaining look at france 's guise family , " the word toleration lacked the positive connotations it has today . " Indeed , the idea was " abhorrent to the vast majority of europeans . "
According to steele , the idea of a woman wearing trousers has connotations of her stepping outside her appropriate , ordained place in the universe even though women have been wearing them since the 1920s , and wearing them to work since the 1970s .
" Go on . Be a tiger " no longer has the favourable connotations it did only a month ago-so it is hardly surprising that accenture , the consulting firm that made the phrase its tagline , has decided to end its marketing relationship with tiger woods , following his confession to marital infidelities .