Word: exoticize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts...
Friends were not surprised Ramsey took the exotic posting.
By the 50s, Hollywood had cast a worldwide net, globetrotting for new locations to fill the CinemaScope screen (thus proving its superiority, in size as well as quality, to TV) and for fetching females of all nationalities. Italians filled the bill. Exotic yet earthy, they couldn't be reduced to...
If you were going to chuck it all and strike out for an exotic foreign destination--no plans, no forwarding address, no regrets--Eastern Europe wouldn't necessarily be the first destination on your list. Picture the travel brochure. Weird alphabets! Crumbling infrastructure! All the boiled cabbage you can eat...
You could miss some of this if you walk too briskly through "Trading Places," which goes easy on the geopolitics and focuses instead on the trade itself and how it shaped British and Asian taste and culture. Portraits of Company men comfortably set up in their new eastern homes?one...