Sentence examples for oriental for from inspiring English sources

Or wanted to change the school's name because "oriental" for some is Eurocentric and offensive?

If his later canvases were too Oriental for Western tastes, his earlier work, largely prints and paintings on paper, were too Western for the Japanese.

Before setting out from the Mandarin Oriental for a day's sightseeing in Barcelona, I left the novel I was reading face down but open on the bed.

The first is that they sold Oriental for too little in 2009, given that there was clear potential to increase profits in a relatively short space of time.

On a hotel roll, I hit Asiate at the Mandarin Oriental for cornflake-crusted French ''toast served with the best apricot confit I've ever tasted.

So Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, Wolfgang Puck's The Cut at 45 Park Lane, and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental, for instance, are all in happy harmony.

These were mostly of rather poor quality by Oriental standards, for they were made for the less discriminating European market, but the intricacy and skill with which even they were fashioned caught the imagination of Europeans, who bought them eagerly.

In an effort to find and demonstrate the efficacy of herbal formulae used in oriental clinics for the treatment of AR, Biyeom-Tang was evaluated for its anti-allergic activities.

Charles Wuorinen's "New York Notes" was like an abstract ballet for three distinct couples, full of colorful moods (including oddly Oriental touches for the woodwinds).

An Oriental rug for $6,500 ("pretty and practical," Ms. Fisher said) completed the job.

And Cleopatra's suicide has provided a useful "Oriental" theme for many post-Renaissance Western artists.