Sentence examples for oriental the from inspiring English sources

Hephzibah is plump, earthy, sensuous, Oriental — the ideal Other for the etiolated Gentile.

Above, the rooms are individually themed - the Oriental, the French, the Colonial, the Venetian.

In New Oriental, the tough-talking chief of Muddy Waters, Carson C. Block, has found a new target.

Buyers of the flats are treated as permanent guests of the Mandarin Oriental, the hotel adjacent to the development.

Whenever the two are discussed together, color is put down, linked with "the feminine, the oriental, the primitive, the infantile, the vulgar," Mr. Batchelor writes.

At the same time, a few blocks away, at the Mandarin Oriental, the Overseas Press Club was holding its own awards dinner.

"You know, the kilim, the Oriental rugs, the hookahs.

The 38-story, 370-room skyscraper seems to glower back at the Oriental from the opposite side of the river.

In particular, I am looking at the precedents for this seemingly contradictory use of the 'Oriental' in the region.

As evidence, Mr. Sabata cited the recent openings of the ME Hotel, the Mandarin Oriental and the W Barcelona.

The Oriental is the world record holder for a current and continuing film engagement.