Sentence examples for wai from inspiring English sources

Some expats say your Thai counterparts will appreciate a wai when you meet them.

Others (more sensibly) will point out that there are all sorts of subtle differences in how you do the wai depending on your status relative to the other person's, so there's a risk of giving the wrong one.

Meetings and greetings When Thais meet other Thais they do a wai, a gesture that involves bringing the palms of the hands together and bowing the head slightly.

But the broadcasts, produced by Mark Thompson, the BBC's current director-general, and which Mr Cunningham appears not to have seen, turned out to be excellent.However much he took part, Mr Cunningham was always reminded that he was a lao wai, a foreigner.

For three minutes she stood calmly, unblinking, a faint smile on her face, giving a traditional wai greeting.

Subtler tastes were satisfied with Tin shui wai dik ye yu mo (Night and Fog), Ann Hui's vividly acted drama about domestic violence.

July 17 , 1958Shanghai, China Wong Kar-Wai, (born July 17 , 1958 Shanghai, China) Chinese film director noted for his atmospheric films about memory, longing, and the passage of time.

Tai Chi-wai and his wife, Catherine Au Yuk-shan, beat and tortured their employee, who had a child, with hot irons, a bike chain, a shoe, and other implements.

She played an alluring showgirl for Wong Kar-Wai in 2046, a member of a resistance group in 1930s Shanghai in Purple Butterfly, and the tap-dancing lead in the surreal fairy-tale musical Princess Raccoon.

"I sometimes compare making a film to cooking," Wong Kar-wai tells me.

Chinese Communism should soon be ready to tackle Kuan-wai.