Orientalizing

Word ORIENTALIZING
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Definitions and meanings of "Orientalizing"

What do we mean by orientalizing?

To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

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The word "orientalizing" in example sentences

The dance never fully engaged with issues such as the violence of the post-colonial situation or the "orientalizing" of indigenous cultures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"orientalizing" styles, because, in a greater or less degree, they show in their ornamentation the influence of oriental models, of which the pure Geometric style betrays no trace. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

Facial make-up studiously (and wisely) avoids orientalizing the "Japanese" cast with pasty skin-tones or painted eye-slants. ❋ Rodney Punt (2010)

Also more ridiculous fail over this orientalizing term for Asian steampunk, which, imo, should just be called Asian steampunk, and not that new term Gatehouse is trying to promote. ❋ Ah Yuan // Wingstodust (2010)

The greater question is, how do you prevent the craftsmen from devolving into self-orientalizing? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can live with self-orientalizing if it results in more craftsmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dahesh's collection of 19th - and early 20th-century European academic an orientalizing art includes works featuring Napoleonic and 19th-century Egypt with past exhibitions such as Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt (Napoleon on Madison) and Picturing the Middle East: A Hundred Years of European Orientalism (The Artistic Vision of Jean Lecomte du Nouye). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although this collection of 19th-century European academic and orientalizing art no longer has a permanent home, its gift shop is located in Manhattan and includes Egyptian jewelry and prints. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, sadly, it gets away with it, too, because the West is still prone to “orientalizing” and thus creating the Other. ❋ Michael Turton (2009)

And because so many of those in the West who most point out and argue against this dull orientalizing tendency are cultural relativists who create the Other in different fashion: by rejecting definition of non-Westerners in universal terms while judging Westerners in universal terms – all while steering clear of the fact that their own creation of the Other just as much legitimizes repression, murder, abrogation of rights, etc. ❋ Michael Turton (2009)

I think that's one of the most important aspects of her text, along with the discussion of the ways men's text "other" women, in a sort of orientalizing gesture. ❋ Bardiac (2007)

Caspar describes as: "The freedom of a Christian and the libertas of the ancient Roman citizen fused in a single concept, which must have sounded strange to the heir of the orientalizing and despotic system of Diocletian." ❋ Fred (2007)

In fact, a number of her letters and passages from her excavation report include orientalizing -- exoticized and condescending -- descriptions of Egyptians, including those on her crew. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He then adds: "There was even a whiff of orientalizing, about what a Shi'a leader should or should not be capable of saying." ❋ As'ad (2006)

Probably somewhere a cultural critic has written a learned tome about how the telephoto lens overdramatizes the effect of crowding in Asia, orientalizing it visually for westerners where the telephoto is used to emphasize space, as in the stereotyped shots of endless lines of telephone wires lining empty western highways. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

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