But lately BBDO has been calling on sister agencies in Shanghai and Europe to help it incorporate actual foreign sensibilities into ads.
But it's still a tricky PR message for Facebook to be having to deliver in the midst of a major data scandal — hence Zuckerberg's attempt to reframe it as a matter of domestic vs foreign "sensibilities".
"I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent, and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing out place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined," Morris said.
Obama came to power without foreign-policy experience; but he won the election, in part, by advocating a foreign-policy sensibility that was wary of American overreach.
But most important for Clendinnen's inner life, Australia is a British colony; her childhood takes place in a rural paradise not foreign to our sensibility.
Steven Woods, the director of engineering for Google in Kitchener, said that the search engine company established an operation here about eight years ago and expanded into the tannery building in 2011 as part of a broad plan to absorb foreign talent and sensibilities.
In India, the spiritual infuses life in ways that seem foreign to a Western sensibility.
Japanese architecture created from the last quarter of the 19th century is remarkable in its rapid assimilation of Western architectural forms and the structural technology necessary to achieve results quite foreign to traditional Japanese sensibilities.
"What problem does The New York Times solve for someone who is smart, Internet-savvy and living in Mumbai?" Indeed, the sensibilities of foreign governments and their citizens may not align with the newspaper's strategy.
The idea of art making as a craft, even a job — something you do conscientiously and professionally; something it is possible to give up willingly — is foreign to our modern sensibilities.
