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El anillo de sello lanzó un destello, connotativo de monarquía;
The seal ring flashed, connoting monarchy;
En griego, la esfera connotativa y denotativa de poie¯o y su desiderativo poi¯ese¯o es excepcionalmente densa.
In Greek, the denotative and connotative sphere of poieō and of its desiderate poiēseō is exceptionally dense.
El menos contaminado de los textos líricos, la más abstracta y metageométrica de las proposiciones de Spinoza, no podrían romper las ataduras con las impurezas denotativas y connotativas de lo vulgar.
The most uncontaminated of lyric texts, the most abstract, meta-geometric of Spinoza’s propositions, cannot altogether break its moorings from the denotative-connotative impurities of the vulgate.
Tal era su repulsión mutua que, en los cuarteles del Fort St George de Madrás, cuando un soldado de caballería sentenciaba que «preferiría ser espiritista», la frase solía considerarse equivalente, en una asociación connotativa, a manifestaciones como «preferiría estar muerto».
Such was their mutual revulsion that in the barrack-rooms of Madras’s Fort St George, the phrase ‘I would rather be a Spiritualist’, when uttered by a cavalryman, was generally regarded as the equivalent, in connotative association, to such statements as ‘I would rather be dead’.
Sordo al significado connotativo y alusivo de sus palabras, yo estaba ocupado en planear mi discurso de entrada, que comenzaría con estas o parecidas palabras: «Siento haberme adelantado a mi escolta lejana, Sublime Excelencia, pero era tal mi ansia y tal su exceso de tejido adiposo… bueno, hay que admitir, presidente, que algunos de ellos sudan con frecuencia. Propongo con toda humildad que al menos los guardias de Texas se mantengan en mejor forma física.
Deaf to the connotative and allusive significance in his words, I was busy planning my entrance speech, which began something like "I'm sorry to have outdistanced my Texas escort. Your Sublime Excellency, but such was my eagerness and such their excess of adipose tissue—well, one must admit, Prexy, that some of them sweat a mite easy. I submit in all humiHty that at least the Texas Rangers ought to keep in a little better physical trim.
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