Sentence examples for oriental background from inspiring English sources
It has an oriental background and we interpreted the song accordingly.
The play, the work of Josill Alcarez, who also directed, has an Oriental background and characters named Prince Won Ton, Princess Consume (pronounced consommé) and Chow Mein, which means it has much to overcome be fore it begins.
Although she came from what she herself referred to as a "Muslim and oriental" background, she had the good fortune, as a student in Istanbul, to study with the famous Italian dramatic soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, so that when she went to Italy in 1953, she was thoroughly grounded in the traditions of Italian opera.
It was a struggle adapting to a different culture from his "Oriental" background in today's Lebanon, which was part of greater Syria and under the Ottoman Empire.
Irma is described by Jonathon Green as "the slinky epitome of a twenties 'vamp, and by Lawrence Treadwell as dark, sexy and from an oriental background, "a true femme fatale".
For "My Yard" project at school, Leslie Torrini brought in pics of Oriental bridge, plus background info on SGs (age, place of origin, etc)., as did "every other kid in class," whereas Lilly brought in nineteen-forties condom box found last year during aborted attempt to start vegetable garden.
Subjects were drawn from West European, East European, American, Oriental and Asian backgrounds, within which there were further cultural sub-groupings, for example, British, Italian, Portuguese, etc.within the West European grouping.
'It's an amazing black background with Oriental flowers by Ralph Lauren,' she says.
She was the model for major Rossetti works including Aurelia (Fazio's Mistress), Bocca Baciata (the kissed mouth, from a story by Bocaccio) and The Blue Bower, which shows her against a sumptuous background of oriental tiles.
The Oriental Theatre in the background proves this depicts the matching Great Clock at the northwest corner of the building at State & Randolph.
Intrepidly burrowing deeper in the remnants, I came across some solid-colored material that picked up the background in the oriental.
