exoticness

"I'd hypnotize myself to sleep with the exoticness of them."

I supply a certain exoticness and Englishness that they like.

In preparation, they played up Katsura's exoticness and her physical attractiveness.

It seems that at least part of the entertainment value of "Turkish" music was the perceived exoticness.

Already the audience is smiling, reassured both by Donahue's comic consternation and by the exoticness of the visitors.

Shows also played up the "exoticness" of persons and objects from other cultures, obliging the Parisian fascination with the négritude of the 1920s.

Opposed to the exoticness of the organic component is the plainspokenness of what often look like parts of outmoded machinery.

Or is that just ex-pat chick lit of the Joy Luck Club variety, gaining attention through the 'exoticness' of ethnicity?

Typically, this is done either to add the exoticness of a foreign language without representing any particular ethnicity, or to avoid going to the trouble of inventing a new language.

Then there was the exoticness of the fact that she had no hair, instead she sported a pate that was smooth and gleaming as a water-caressed pebble.

He was fascinated by the life there, the strong Italian sun, the brightness of colors, and the exoticness of Catholic Church rites which he depicted in many paintings.

As the only han to have a king and an entire kingdom as vassals, Satsuma gained significantly from Ryukyu's exoticness, reinforcing that it was an entire separate kingdom.

Torn between the roles of "incurable romantic" and scientific observer, Stedman attempted to maintain an objective distance from this strange new world, but was drawn in by its natural beauty and exoticness.

She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent 'exoticness' of it all.

Earl Gray Harbor's wardrobe had prepared her for the exoticness of Charisian styles, and as she gazed at Cayleb, she realized that those loose, colorful garments were perfectly suited to his muscular figure.

Titles such as Christopher Pike's Monster (Hodder & Stoughton, £3.99) and Diane Hoh's The Train (Scholastic, £2.99) are American imports, which may add distance and a certain exoticness to the horrors that unfold.

The angle was widely used to depict madness, unrest, exoticness, and disorientation in German Expressionism, hence its name Deutsch, meaning German, was often conflated with the etymologically identical word Dutch which gives the corruption of the term now commonly used.

The same is true of Sarah Charlesworth's photographs at Jay Gorney Modern Art and Elaine Reichek's installation pieces at the Carlo Lamagna Gallery - two shows that also reflect feminist concerns fused with issues of exoticness and exclusion.

Her journalistic career began at the Financial Times as a summer intern, it was here she described the foreign correspondents as 'Man-like-Gods' in reference to their gender and the exoticness of their lives and suitases, it was something she wanted to be a part of.

On one side of Green Square is the old Ottoman citadel, now a very fine archaeological museum, and immediately behind it lies the old medina, a vast labyrinth of alleys and small shops that still retain some of the exoticness of old North Africa.