Sentence examples for oriental concept from inspiring English sources
The European concept of carpet design, as distinguished from the Oriental concept, is most explicit in the Savonnerie carpets, in which three-dimensional compositions complement architecture, and even portraits are reproduced.
"That led me to the oriental concept of the wabi sabi: the beauty of the impermanent, imperfect, unfinished".
Marx used the concept of "Oriental despotism" to describe a specific type of class domination that used the state's power of taxation in order to extract resources from the peasantry.
Such an analysis has not only challenged concepts of Oriental despotism and static and self-sufficient villages, but also has hinted at the need to rethink Europe's industrial revolution, which could be seen as a response to the "economic dynamism outside," Britain's answer to India's competitive challenge.
Cigarettes, then a hot new concept, were given Oriental brand names like Fatima, Omar and the still-with-us Camels.
Oriental is an outmoded ethnocentric concept referring to Asiatic societies where, Europeans imagined, passions ran closer to the surface than in their own chilly, restrained civilization.
For now, Mandarin Oriental has no plans to replicate the concept at other hotels, but elsewhere the trend is taking off.
They will enable medicine to become predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory, and, in the process, concepts and methods from Western and oriental cultures can be combined.
Powderized dried roots of the plants Acanthopanax senticosus (Siberian ginseng), Angelica sinensis (Dong Quai) and Scutellaria baicalensis (Baikal Skullcap) are commonly used in oriental medicine for a variety of indications based on traditional concepts.
The creator of the concept is the academic and writer Guy Standing, 67, now a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
