Sentence examples for oriental thing from inspiring English sources

I guess that's quite an oriental thing to do.

The item that was missing, the Oriental Thing that he regretted most of all, was the long, gold- tasselled shawl that Kuchuk-Hanem had worn round her waist when she danced for her visitors.

President Barack Obama has signed legislation that will make the words "Negro" and "Oriental" things of the past, striking the racially-charged terms from federal law.

He got himself fit as a butcher's dog, ran the London marathon, went to the gym, went to the park and did that oriental posturing thing to balance his karma.

I was actually in the yellow room, filled with the things she'd collected -- things American, things English, things Oriental -- all put together in a way that looked so relaxed and easy.

(Whistler was a leader in the period's craze for things Oriental).

Born in Geneva, he developed his method in Constantinople and pioneered the age's great fashion for all things oriental.

Mozart's comedy about the culture clash between Enlightenment Europe and Ottoman Turkey dates from 1782, and embodies the late 18th-century fascination with things oriental.

The second is that there were lots of obvious things Oriental's owners could do to boost profits, which ABI didn't do prior to 2009, which doesn't serve shareholders' interests.

This binary relation derives from the European psychological need to create a difference of cultural inequality between West and East; that cultural difference is attributed to immutable cultural "essences" inherent to Oriental peoples and things.

Western artists came to Istanbul with their fascination for all things "oriental" and painted their fevered, opulent visions of behind the harem walls -- but now having seen one of the finest at the Topkapi Palace, I think they are almost understated -- the real thing a fabulous fantasy land prison.