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exotic English

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exotic

Something that is foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign. Vera's make up gave her an exotic appearance. Candy's make up was more exotic than Nancy's. Trisha wore the most exotic make up I've ever seen. If something is exotic, it is not native to the ecosystem. Palm trees would be considered an exotic species in Antarctica.

exotic

(= alien) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world alien customs exotic plants in a greenhouse exotic cuisine strikingly strange or unusual an exotic hair style protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants the exotic landscape of a dead planet

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Simple sentences

A bass drum, a snare drum, and cymbals were once all a composer needed to make a work sound exotic.
Tom left his wife for an exotic dancer that he met in a strip club.
Hanako impressed the guests no less by her exotic beauty and elegance than by her erudition and refined conversation.
Her exotic perfume has a subtle scent.
I like exotic foods.

Movie subtitles

Down below were stowed a host of exotic animals.
When he and his fellow sailors rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, they weren't wondering, as the Chinese had, if they could find some exotic animals to take home to their king.
It's this really exotic drink called the gin and tonic.
Well, she's a florist and Declan let her pick the more exotic blooms when the Wadsworths were away.
Fearing that you might back out of your plan for the more exotic Scarlett Ming,.
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.
You know perfectly well that you can be as easily seduced by an exotic prince as by one of your own colloquial yokels.
A girl dancer has to be exotic.
And here comes that exotic star, Olga Mara! And her new husband, the Baron de la Bonnet de la Toulon.
But I know Marrakech. I can show you an intriguing Arab restaurant where the food is different and the manner of eating exotic.
Remember, not only will you triumph over good and evil but you will be the most exotic woman in all of Bagdad.
Any sort of food more exotic than the most pallid mashes unendurable to my taste buds.
Here we have our lovely Lorraine in her exotic, exciting pose as a provocative provoking provocation.
Sometimes, it's slam, fiji. Beautiful, exotic places where there are no books to keep.
A pantomime that's magic, exotic, pyrotechnic!
Whatever I do or say, you think is exotic. I've never thought of myself as exotic.
Exotic firebirds from the forests of the Amazon, a blaze of breathtaking beauty.
And here comes that exotic star, Olga Mara!
Exotic like you.
I know Marrakech. I can show you an Arab restaurant where the food is different and the manner of eating exotic.
Or, if you like something more exotic.
The city was enveloped in the fragrance of exotic spices from overseas.
Then you are a traveler, a man who admires exotic scenery.
Tonight's little volume takes us to exotic nearby Mexico, home of the tortilla, the bullfight and the 40-hour coffee break.
She was an exotic dancer.
And all the exotic animals are here.
Your face looks too exotic for a Japanese.
Exotic Africa.
You see an exotic woman, with a veil across her face.
He is an exotic subject in general, shy but not weak-mental in the medical sense.
To old times, so exotic! SaIonica!
I expected something exotic. - What is it?
A series of bizarre and exotic images bursting on my mind and consciousness.
It's hard to identify, but exotic food doesn't have to be outspoken.
Sounds absolutely exotic.
Not for the sun or the oil but for the exotic change.
Exotic salad.

News and current affairs

Here on the Upper West Side, in the middle of a triangle formed by Central Park, Lincoln Center, and the Hudson River, I was once in the habit of beginning each day with an exotic act of devotion, a ritual of humility.
Similarly, the risk of deflation worldwide has been contained via exotic and unconventional monetary policies: near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, credit easing, and forward guidance.
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin offered an exotic explanation of terrorism: the terrorists, he claimed, are instruments in the hands of those who still fear Russia as a nuclear power.
It is also difficult to trace back to the 1980's the origins of the credit explosion and the proliferation of exotic and poorly understood financial instruments that lay at the heart of the 2007-2008 crisis.
The oil technology story, like the one for exotic financial instruments, was very compelling and seductive.
Nor could they do otherwise, as it was nearly impossible to price these complex, exotic, and illiquid instruments.
Moreover, it is hard to price losses on exotic instruments that are illiquid (i.e. do not have a market price).
It would let each country focus on its own future vision of energy needs, whether that means concentrating on renewable sources, nuclear energy, fusion, carbon storage, or searching for new and more exotic opportunities.
Recently, opponents of structural reform have put forward more exotic objections - most notably the problem caused by deflation when policy interest rates are at zero.
Most French people could only dream of an exotic wedding in India.
Perhaps the most exotic are the huge magnets used to accelerate particles in the Large Hadron Collider, which seeks to discover the fundamental principles of matter.
The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.
A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and risky energy-exploration activities by making them unprofitable.
Yet lessons learned in dealing with exotic species, combined with recent mathematical models of the evolutionary dynamics of tumors, indicate that eradicating most cancers may be impossible.
NEW YORK - Until Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola into the United States, the disease was largely dismissed as an exotic pestilence of concern mainly to impoverished West Africa, and those who dared to volunteer there.
There are greater forces at work than his exotic private life and inability to connect with voters.
But, as the proposals become more innovative and exotic, we must examine them carefully to ensure that they wouldn't end up making matters worse.
Outside Japan, it is widely believed that everything works differently there, owing to the country's exotic culture.
NEW YORK - Forget about innovation and exotic new technology.
The predominant image is of a passive, exotic, and veiled victim-woman who reacts to events instead of actively participating in them.
Yet, to see the crisis coming would have required someone who knew about each of these areas - just as it takes a good general practitioner to recognize an exotic disease.

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