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There are, of course, cases where mixtures have unique properties, e.g., in the case of the intensities of harmonic overtones (integer multiples of the fundamental frequency) that distinguish a C tone produced by a guitar from that of a flute—but we can still identify the fundamental, whose perceived pitch is not altered by the overtones.
Besides, once you remove the mystic overtones of blood ties and kinship, diasporan identity reduces to a piece of circular reasoning.
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.
The liberal overtones of this synthesis are not surprising when you consider where the National Greatness cons come from.
William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.