overtones

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Examples

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. Pitirim Sorokin

In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f. Jean-Philippe Rameau

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. Katherine Anne Porter

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. Edward Sapir

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien. George Clinton