Sentence examples for exotic element from inspiring English sources

Tuned percussion adds a suitably exotic element, but this relatively protracted voyage needed a faster following wind.

A trip to Egypt in 1856 introduced an exotic element into his painting e.g., Prayer in the Mosque of ʿAmr, Old Cairo (c. 1860).

Racial ambiguity lent an exotic element: the Bennett sisters had black, American Indian and Irish blood; Ms. Talley was black, Indian and Puerto Rican.

An exotic element was represented by The Taking of Troy and The Story of Alexander, which appeared in the oldest saga lists, but classical learning had comparatively little effect until the next period.

NIURKA DAVILA Liked Routine, and Change She was a joyful person, Niurka Davila, an exotic element dressing up the bureaucracy inside the Port Authority's data-control division at the World Trade Center's north tower.

For anyone with little knowledge of India or Hinduism, the depictions of various religious practices simply add to the exotic element of Mumbai, dissected from their true meaning, becoming simply video entertainment.

Investors, they add, see the presence of the exotic elements as icing on the cake.

There are, throughout his music, exotic elements whose provenance would, we estimate, be Asia.

The ingredients, especially the seafood, are splendidly fresh and carefully prepared, their exotic elements more rational than bizarre.

Gautier and several artists spent a year and a half meticulously renovating the restaurant's interior, combining local and exotic elements.

But the simpler bottles, which balance the more exotic elements with a breezy dryness and citrus flavors, are better with food.