If, like me, you need the joke explained though I did figure out that mustashriq was 'orientalist', hie yourself over to Language Log, where Mark Liberman does the honors. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: MUSTAGHRIB.] Reference
And that no hotel could find room for a pregnant woman has a special Middle Eastern flavour - but now I'm becoming an "orientalist". From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
But at least one of his supporters fears that Said did not take account of the vast "orientalist" literature of Italy, Germany and Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
Neither do I, but: ‘respectable but out of date (and (maybe kind of orientalist)’ seems to be the consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » More Lewis] Reference
I bet that she read that in a book by an Israeli orientalist. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday, May 13, 2007] Reference
These factors fertilize the orientalist imaginary in which modern. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference
Another example of the orientalist, confessional style of pseudo-analysis. From Wordnik.com. [13 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference
BURNOUF, EUGÈNE (1801-1852), French orientalist, was born in Paris on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Do i deteckt amalgamayshun of orientalist olde-worlde staireotyeps, mayhap?. From Wordnik.com. [CANST THINE HATH MILK CURD AND MINCED BEEF SANDWHICH? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I take it that this was the father of Frederick Goodall, the orientalist painter. From Wordnik.com. [Threading Cleopatra's Needle] Reference
He became an orientalist and historian, publishing his first book on Iraq in 1925. From Wordnik.com. [Oil, Power Politics and the Arab Awakening] Reference
Gerome was definitely an influence, but also Leon Belly, another French orientalist. From Wordnik.com. [Ozymandias] Reference
Michael aptly avoids the orientalist mistake of colonizing his object through language. From Wordnik.com. [Chunghwamintzu Rulz: thanks for making my point] Reference
The article, by D.G. Hogarth, a British archaeologist and orientalist, began as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of DeCou's Assassination] Reference
I really wonder how you plan to pull this off without devolving into orientalist discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey for Adeyaka] Reference
I really wonder how you plan to pull this off without devolving into orientalist discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey for Adeyaka] Reference
The learned orientalist M. Garcin de Tassy, considered it to be of such authority that in his. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Moai, that would be Frederick Arthur Bridgman, the American orientalist who studied under Gerome. From Wordnik.com. [Enchantment Exhibition and Symposium] Reference
In nineteenth-century orientalist works, one theme that was given an encore was the captive woman. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Defiant Iranian Painter Abelina Galustian] Reference
Bogle decks his story with all the stock orientalist furniture: jewels, slaves, perfumes and bowers. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81] Reference
Yet the veils in Lalla Rookh reflect Moore's own orientalist gaze as well as that of the English colonizers. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore] Reference
As an archeologist and orientalist with the most sensitive and impeccable taste, his wife brought to the marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Monod - Biography] Reference
Now, as when I lived here at the end of the 1990's, it is a colorful treasure-trove of exotic orientalist decoration. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Tour Time in Harlem!] Reference
Bogle is at his most Sterne-like in a letter written to Anne in October 1771 which spirals into an orientalist parody. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81] Reference
Daniel Pipes is a neo-conservative, orientalist, extreme right-wing Zionist, and often expresses islamophobic statements. From Wordnik.com. [Is it still Islamofascism Awareness Week?] Reference
In beirut, the gravest danger a foreign journalist is likely to face is being thought of as an orientalist and/ or racist. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday, May 25, 2008] Reference
Massad brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalised, orientalist discourse right up to the present. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
After completing his dissertation, Schopenhauer was exposed to Upanishadic thought in 1813 by the orientalist Friedrich Majer. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
This dimension of the orientalist project led directly to the flowering of the dharma in Europe during the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism] Reference
I have a bunch of these orientalist images that I shot at the Stockton Museum which, though a small Museum, has a lot of excellent traditional samples. From Wordnik.com. [The Arab Guard] Reference
In this instance, we need to examine the emergence of what could be termed “orientalist kitsch,” in which the caricature is resurrected and marketed. From Wordnik.com. [Orientalist Kitsch | PopPolitics.com] Reference
"In a review of his book The Vanished Imam, Asad Abu Khalil verbally assaulted Ajami, calling him a "neo-orientalist," an insult in Middle East studies circles.". From Wordnik.com. [Monday, July 21, 2008] Reference
The old orientalist image of decadent and luxurious sexuality seems completely out of fashion except on the postcards and Turkish Delight tins on sale outside the palace. From Wordnik.com. [In the harem] Reference
The image promoting the show - by Frederick Arthur Bridgman - known as an orientalist - seems to be much in the vein of your work or visa versa as this work precedes yours. From Wordnik.com. [Enchantment Symposium Tomorrow] Reference
He was born in Hungary and emigrated as a boy to Vienna, where he was trained as a history painter at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under the orientalist Leopold Karl Müller. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
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