Sentence examples for western mind from inspiring English sources

"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".

Africa is still impoverished in the western mind.

This semi-magical character of Native American art is difficult for the Western mind to understand.

It's not easy for the western mind to understand how they fit together.

But then, he writes, came "the closing of the Western mind".

This is not the civilised western mind at its most admirable.

"That is extremely funny, especially for a Western mind, which is so action-driven.

It's completely different from what we know as the Western mind, and it's hard for us to understand.

THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MIND: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, by Charles Freeman.

Here he analyses how the idea of what Hegel called "absolute inwardness" came to dominate the western mind.

The column quoted a teacher, M. A. Sasad-Matiasayingsaying that the West felt threatened by populous, mineral-rich Muslim countries that were able to resist the Western mind-set.