Example Sentences

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You say that no one wants to keep paintings like these, but Orientalist works of this sort are regularly available for sale online.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021

Don’t we want to push past the “we-they,” “self and other” discourses characteristic of the Western-dominated centuries — the Orientalist centuries, we might say?

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2019

In this respect, the adventurer and Orientalist Richard Francis Burton was an exception.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2019

In his Nice period paintings, when he was most under the influence of Manet, he painted and drew models in Orientalist modes.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018

The book itself may be useful, not, perhaps, to the Professor or to the Orientalist, but to the general reader, and to the student commencing the study of Arabic.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.