The connotation of a word is the subtle implication, the emotional association it carriesoften quite apart from its dictionary definition.

'We bookish people have our connotations for the life we do not live.

There was a differing connotation in the hands, to be sure.

He felt, and rightly, that a work of art, being something individual, should be created with concentrated attention upon the attainment of its perfection as an individual; this perfection attained, the artist would attain to typical, symbolical connotation into the bargain.

You may properly say, "Calhoun had logic on his side"; add, however, the words "but his face was to the past," and you spoil the sentence,for face gives a reflex connotation to side, slight perhaps and momentary, but disconcerting.