Word: exoticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William Foyle still takes personal charge when one of his customers writes in for an especially exotic book. An elderly spinster recently asked for a book bound in human skin. Foyle sent out his scouts, within a week shipped her a copy of French Novelist Eugène Sue'...
¶Engineers are "mostly apolitical." They "try to accommodate themselves to their surroundings . . . will gradually come to like Gershwin and Offenbach . . . The best minds among them reserve an hour a week or so for some private effort . . . modern poetry, ancient history, or the anthropology of exotic places."
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa...
Again Bogart plays a cynical, self-seeking neutral in an exotic city where the gallant and the shifty engage in life & death intrigues and a beautiful woman wants desperately to escape through a police blockade. Again Cynic Bogart rises in the last reel to a noble, sacrificial gesture, accommodated by...
Lee himself had more exotic tastes. He married the daughter of an Indian chief. Inducted into the Seneca tribe, he was dubbed "Ounewaterika," meaning "boiling water, or one whose spirits are never asleep."