Sentence examples for the orient is from inspiring English sources

ES: I don't believe in Occident and Orient, and I don't think that the Orient is so oriental and the Occident is so occidental.

The Orient is doomed to inauthenticity, to be forever seeking fragments it can shore against its ruins.

Surra, a disease of horses and camels in the Middle East and the Orient, is caused by Trypanosoma evansi and is transmitted by horse flies.

As Franz's colleagues debate the question of Orientalism, the book's few thesis statements—e.g., "The Orient is an imaginal construction, an ensemble of representations from which everyone picks what they like, wherever they are"—issue from the mouths of supporting characters.

"Orientalism," as defined most famously by Edward Said, means, Bernstein writes, that "the Western vision of the Orient is a highly eroticized one that arose not from reality but from the need to find in the East what had been planted in the Western mind even before Westerners started going there".

"The orient was once a symbol of sexuality and sensuality".

Missions to Islāmic areas and to the Orient were begun.

The Orient was similarly fraught with religiously justified external wars and bloody internal rivalry between competing Muslim dynasties.

His own Jewish heritage and interest in the racial divisions of the Orient were tortuously explored in Tancred, or the New Crusade.

But what Flaubert found in the orient was more interesting and more perplexing than anything he had been led to expect.

Since the enlightenment, Dr. Said wrote, "every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric".