exoticism

Example Sentences

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Such awareness lends a subtle metafictional framework to the novel, a hint of cautionary skepticism about its releases into fantasy and brushes with exoticism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Given that a digital camera is now in most every pocket, queer photography’s bracing fusion of the personal and the exotic is pretty threadbare, since exoticism no longer applies to being queer in American life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

Cady, the protagonist of “Mean Girls,” was raised and homeschooled in Africa, lending her a whiff of exoticism compared to most of the student body at North Shore High School.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

Couto’s writing, critics said, was the linguistic exoticism of a Portuguese writer with no lived experience of the characters he imagined.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2023

They weren't rich, but what Hugh's family lacked financially they more than made up for with the sort of exoticism that works wonders at cocktail parties, leading always to the remark "That sounds fascinating."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris