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Besides, once you remove the mystic overtones of blood ties and kinship, diasporan identity reduces to a piece of circular reasoning.
DISABLED PARKING PLACES conjure up a nice version of a handicapped car park while MOTORCYCLE BAY SUSPENDED has overtones of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The nomination gets lots of space elsewhere, but only the LAT infuses the vote with racial overtones from the git-go, saying in the first sentence that the vote "killed the candidacy of the first black ever nominated to be Air Force secretary," even though the issues that brought him down were discrepancies in his statements about his career as a pilot and his apparent practice of pressuring subordinates to buy Amway products from him.
Some familiar phrases--such as go to work on --are plain idioms with no cultural overtones.
And of course a large mass murder at a high school, especially with the Nazi and goth and geek overtones, resonates with the public, and media, more than day traders in Atlanta, but the coverage was mind-numbing.