Sentence examples for exotic to him from inspiring English sources

We are as exotic to him as he is to us.

When he was living in Tehran, the fabled city was as exotic to him as it would be to a Westerner.

This mission is exotic to him, he acknowledges, pointing out, "I've rarely said the word Lord, unless it's followed by of the Rings".

But Mr. Weerasethakul is less concerned with exhibiting the exotic glories of his native country — which, after all, is not exotic to him — than with drawing out the latent mysteries of ordinary existence.

"Mr. Weerasethakul is less concerned with exhibiting the exotic glories of his native country — which, after all, is not exotic to him — than with drawing out the latent mysteries of ordinary existence," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in March.

As a child of the 1940s and '50s, this reviewer grew up in Britain when food was still rationed — butter and cheese until 1954 — and recalls puzzling over the highly-colored pictures of roast hams studded with pineapple chunks that appeared on the back covers of National Geographic magazine, advertisements that were just as exotic to him as the editorial content about, say, Samoa, that lay inside.

If an early 20th century American were to attend a circus somewhere in Europe, he might be in for a shock to see no exotic animals, gypsy women with mustaches or something equally "exotic" according to him.

She had to-do lists!" At the time, to-do lists were exotic things to him.

People who like Ahmet offer up bits of exotic Americana to him as tribute.

Plus, he preferred wafers, za'atar being as ordinary to him as it was exotic to me.

Like the four German shepherds that have been slinking about, the exotic cats belong to him.