Sentence examples for oriental themes from inspiring English sources

Before the 18th century, Europeans imported fine porcelain from China, and Oriental themes predominated in their decoration.

Before the 18th century, Europeans imported their fine porcelain from China, and Oriental themes predominated in their decoration.

Another piece, "TV Buddha" (1974), involves an ancient Buddha figure gazing at a television monitor that shows his own image an unsettling union of western and oriental themes.

Oriental themes crept into painting and architecture, notably that of the steamship offices near Trafalgar Square, the romantic gateway to the empire.

His eclectic style is revealed by this mixture of traditional settings of classical Polish poems alongside impressionistic cycles on oriental themes, Expressionistic German numbers and nationalistic folk songs.

Similarly the troubadours of 12th-century Provence creatively refashioned, in Christian terms, the inspirations they received from the Arabic poetry of Spain and the influences of Celtic and Oriental themes in circulation at the time.

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

Once inside the club, which has a vaguely oriental theme, I'm relieved to find that posing is coming a distant third to drinking and dancing.

'There is no particular rhyme or reason to why I chose the ones I did, although there's a vaguely Oriental theme.' The Neo is on Oriental Place and, of course, the Brighton Pavilion is just around the corner.

She just happens to have both in her dressing room, a personalized nook she has decorated with an Oriental theme: hanging paper lanterns, tiny colored lights and a pricey obelisklike lamp from a splurge downtown at the Pearl River shop.

His works in Hong Kong have a more oriental theme: with some martial arts characters; gold and red colours have been employed more often to reflect the traditional Chinese colours for fire and earth.