Adjective : exotic foods; exotic plants. ,an exotic hairstyle. ,exotic weapons. ,the exotic clubs where strippers are featured. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : The flower show included several tropical exotics with showy blooms. From Dictionary.com.
Is it the exoticness of city danger, latent racism?. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
She's enthralled with his mystique, his exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
But there's a magnet for this excitement and exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2003] Reference
This underscores the obvious point: exoticness is in the eye of the beholder. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Tattoos Sacred and Profane] Reference
I suppose growing up in Malacca takes all the exoticness and perhaps meaning away. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Nightmare..] Reference
Some of the delegates simply seemed taken by the exoticness of their Oriental adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Early Orientations] Reference
"Tell me what that means," she asked, delighting in the exoticness of the word on his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Tutoring Lady Jane]
There's a mystery about it and an exoticness to it that continues, I think, to fascinate people. From Wordnik.com. [Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent] Reference
The exclusiveness and exoticness of this astrological service was an important part of royal power. From Wordnik.com. [Government by Spiritism and Astrology] Reference
You know, he grew up in Hawaii; there is an exoticness that people see around him, rightly or wrongly. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008] Reference
Is it the glamour, the exoticness or some particular cache that renders American children as undesirable?. From Wordnik.com. [Malawi Court Bars New Madonna Adoption - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Therefore I think that what Polish literature has to offer is mainly originality, maybe even a kind of exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part III)] Reference
If I were really clever, I might add green or red pepper, or perhaps a dash of soy sauce for inappropriate exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
This international quartet mixes various string instruments with select electronic effects to evoke the exoticness of home. From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » Best CDs of 1998] Reference
There's just enough exoticness in the voice to make it really seem like some sort of foreign prince is telling you a story. From Wordnik.com. [Princes of the Golden Cage - Halfway Point] Reference
I have had this sausage in French bistros here and there and enjoy the bite of heat and exoticness it adds to this dish and others. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Despite the strongly emphasized exoticness its Haitian scenery, The Serpent and the Rainbow may be Wes Craven's most pedestrian film. From Wordnik.com. [31 Days of Zombie!, Day 26: The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven, 1988)] Reference
The words sounded evocative, their exoticness intrigued her, and she was left feeling more breathless then when she first entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [Tutoring Lady Jane]
We all, to various degrees, used the concept of blackness as this sort of like exotic, you know, we all worked our exoticness to various degrees. From Wordnik.com. [For One Rock Band, A Novel and Exciting 'Negro Problem'] Reference
Meanwhile his songwriting contains echoes of the Appalachian Mountains, strains of the Deep South, and more than a whiff of Venezualan exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Admittedly, our easy access to the wares of most nations has somewhat diminished the exoticness of international travel, but it has enriched our everyday lives. From Wordnik.com. [Business, Law, Economics & Society] Reference
I was fascinated by the exoticness of Hannibal's war, by the bravery and barbarity of ancient battle, by the notion of such a titanic clash of African and European powers. From Wordnik.com. [David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.] Reference
That's not to say that every fantasy comic should be drawn like Cary Nord - art doesn't have to be realistic to be grounded - but Pantalena's work is unsettling in its exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad] Reference
Part of the reason is the exoticness of other societies 'fetishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I was smitten with those cars that were almost baroque in their exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from PALGN] Reference
It has a mix of exoticness and familarity that comes out from the first to the last gulp. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
As a reader, I think "remoteness" rather than "exoticness" is the important part of the story. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
There's no air of exoticness him to really set him up as both a Sheik and the second in line to the throne. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
Living in China for over five years now, place names have become local for me and the exoticness has been lost. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
He does, however, do a splendid job of evoking the heat, the exoticness, the beauty, and the romance of Spain's coast. From Wordnik.com. [DC's] Reference
"I think moon-bounce retains an exoticness and difficulty that can hook some people and bring ham radio into the modern era.". From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
Adding to this exoticness was the set design (Stephanie Slevin), creating a very temple-like center juxtaposed to a mystic jungle. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
The exoticness and the out-of-the-way feel certainly have their appeals but facing it all alone can seem like a big challenge at times. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
That’s a bit of a problem for me because tans are associated with physical fitness and exoticness. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Prospective Colorer #2: C.H. Sinn] Reference
It chose instead to focus on this "otherness", "exoticness" and. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
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