overtone

Everything has political overtones, whether you like it or not.

There again: the overtone following through the air, a third.

The overtones of discovery the word once had seem to have been put on hold.

The study immediately took on political overtones, particularly for Democrats.

The scientific meeting had its political overtones from beginning to end.

But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well.

Some overtones will sound more prominent than they should; others, less.

It has political overtones about life and death in the modern world, but includes a love story.

At times, the competition has had overtones of class conflict.

Her voice did not have overtones like that of Eva.

The lead up to the fight had many racial overtones.

To date, doing business in Iran has had political overtones.

Coming from any other woman, this might have had the overtones of invitation.

She could hear her voice but it had no overtones or echoes.

But there were unmistakable overtones of national policy as well.

What he learned to listen to were the really distant overtones.

Some of the debate has, not surprisingly, taken on political overtones.

She then denied that the event had any political overtones.

Arguments for or against change to these institutions often have political overtones.

And very often they have been events or occasions with more than a few political overtones.

The biblical overtones are there, but the piece as a whole is not.

I never call it vegetarian, because that word has too many political overtones.

So it must have the look of a professional killing with political overtones.

Yet in their house, when he was growing up, the word socialist had religious overtones.

Now that piece of dirt you brought me has no overtones at all.