Example Sentences

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I am all for people getting a little more Chinese, for obvious personal heritage and emotional reasons, but not in an Orientalist, “Yellow Peril” kind of way.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2025

These range from splendid tilework and architectural monuments to Ottoman miniatures, Orientalist paintings, manuscripts, maps, historic photos, vintage postcards and stamps.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

The urge to tie the plot to Britain and to fix its Orientalist aspects is understandable, but Rojo’s “Raymonda” pulls in too many directions at once to cohere.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022

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

The best English translation is by E. W. Lane, an English Orientalist, whose notes are valuable.

From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by Fitch, George Hamlin