Words similar to overtones

Example sentences for: overtones

How can you use “overtones” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Just compare the overtones and associations of the psalm with the -th and the -s endings:
By the same token, the sober observer of language ought not allow his emotions to get in the way of his cool evaluation of the facts (as he sees them), and a label like Illiterate has pejorative overtones and undertones inappropriate to the detached, scholarly view.
Similarly, the phrase recorded live , while it suggests the overtones of a concert rather than a studio performance, may still sound odd to an untrained ear (this may be termed sound mixing, in a double sense).
But its plural form duendes also signified `household gods,' like the Roman Lares and Penates, and took on even broader, pantheistic overtones in duendes de las montañas y de las cuevas `spirits of the mountains and caves.
Besides, once you remove the mystic overtones of blood ties and kinship, diasporan identity reduces to a piece of circular reasoning.