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What does oriental mean?

oriental

denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia oriental civilization

Oriental

a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)

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eastern Asian oriental person

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Simple sentences

The article on Buddhism revived my interest in Oriental religions.
They said that he was a talkative, noisy Oriental.
Eliza's not Oriental.
I have an interest in Oriental ceramics.
She plans to stay at the Oriental Hotel.
I'm interested in oriental pottery.

Movie subtitles

It was also incredibly unhygienic by oriental standards.
And with every new individual timepiece, a little bit more time ran out for the age of oriental predominance.
Professor Quintana, would you look up something in Tate's Oriental Philosophy for me?
Living in the Far East has given me a more or less Oriental view of things.
It's an Oriental concept that destructive force acts upon itself.
Well, I shall never be able to fathom the Oriental mind.
You're practically an Oriental yourself, as far as understanding you is concerned.
More Oriental!
Oriental artists!
I taught Oriental languages at Cambridge before the war.
The Oriental woman submits both in spirit and flesh.
The Oriental woman has much to teach us, because she has remained close to nature, a nature conquered after centuries of civilization.
This box is a product of Oriental ingenuity.
You underestimate the oriental mind, captain.
Cannabis Japonica, an Oriental soporific.
The Chinese boy who showed her to Prebbles table. To an Oriental, all American women are beautiful blondes.
Ah, it sounds quite Oriental, doesn't it?
I'd assume for the same reason that Oriental potentates made their wives wear veils.
The only real woman is the Oriental one.
The Oriental woman huddles at your feet like a little tiger in love.
The Oriental submits both her spirit and her flesh entirely!
We have much to learn from these Oriental women.
Washington reports Garland Humphrey Lynch is fond of movies, nightclubs, fishing, amusement parks and he frequently establishes liaisons with women of Oriental descent.
Oriental style. Does that make 5 million?
Oriental style.
Play something Oriental for Ma.
To an Oriental, all American women are beautiful blondes.
What is the big difference between American girls and Oriental girls?
He had a kind of beautiful Japanese oriental philosophy of life.
What happened to this Oriental-minded genius?
An Oriental gentleman, sir.
Oriental eroticism based on my own little experience, is nothing like what they say.
Oriental adornments. very pretty.
Oriental women have such a mysterious look about them.
You oriental communities, with all due respect, must try and adapt to our country's new, modern reality, and forget your own barbarian customs which you brought with you.

News and current affairs

These are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global eminence after centuries of Western domination, the Oriental answer to generations of Occidental economic success.
Though they allow women to go out and work, they ensure that men continue to be pampered like oriental potentates, never lifting a finger in the home.
The restaurant is decorated not only with oriental carpets, but with life-size figures of the movie's heroes firing machine guns or sitting on crates of dynamite.
We in the West may badly need Russia's energy, but if Russia does not want its future to degenerate into Oriental despotism, it must engage with the West in good faith.
It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.
Whereas Turkey could appear too Oriental and too religious in Brussels or Paris, when viewed from Cairo or Tunis, it looked like an ideal Muslim bridge to the democratic West and economically dynamic Asia.
Indeed, the danger is already real: when I was in Geneva a year ago and staying at the upscale Mandarin Oriental, I asked the concierge how far away the WTO was.

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