How to Use exoticism in a Sentence

exoticism

noun
  • Part of this, no doubt, is a kind of exoticism.
    — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Why did the mind that later turned stone into water bind this lush exoticism with such strong edges?
    — Kenyon Gradert, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Thibaudet and Dutoit brought out the exoticism like no one before them.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Our day was full of romance—not hearts and flowers, but exoticism and excitement.
    — Ashley Mateo and Kaitlin Menza, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 May 2017
  • For Waldie, this means seeing the city on its own terms rather than as the expression of a false exoticism.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Tribal clans are lovingly shot, never one-note lumps of exoticism.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • Artichokes possess a certain glamour, to be sure, and a whiff of exoticism, too.
    — Gail Monaghan, WSJ, 11 May 2017
  • Ray’s most overtly ethnographic work, the movie flirts with a sort of simpering exoticism.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 28 July 2017
  • There's no trace of her Asian background or even the exoticism that frequently played a role in her image as a movie star.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • These weary-looking palm trees, their exoticism strikingly out of place, have clearly seen happier times.
    — 1843, 25 June 2019
  • Every moment of the little boy’s journey rings true - not an instant of exoticism - and as a result his plight touches us all.
    — Salman Rushdie, VanityFair.com, 21 Feb. 2017
  • There have been recent calls to retire this branding, which implies an exoticism and othering of non-western scents.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 8 Mar. 2022
  • At the same time, a certain exoticism was always a crucial ingredient of Pauline’s renown.
    — Ian Bostridge, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020
  • At the same time, a certain exoticism was always a crucial ingredient of Pauline’s renown.
    — Ian Bostridge, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The other, less-common approach was to emphasize the Old World exoticism of the artists.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Performed in front of a largely white audience on Sunday afternoon, this was still a brand of exoticism.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • For decades, Bollywood movies, at least when they were released here, had an undeniable exoticism.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Part of this has to do with the charming exoticism of her old-time world with its winking artifice and cinematic allusions.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • If overt eroticism tended to be downplayed in Mexican painting, exoticism was a selling point.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • That exoticism reflects Venice’s glory days as a seafaring empire whose trade routes linked East and West.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • But as with all exoticism, there’s a strange tug of war between condescension and appreciation in these kinds of borrowings.
    — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Gallen understands and presents here without a shred of exoticism or sentimentality.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The avant-garde exoticism of Spark’s dress was typical of Schiaparelli’s work.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • The main knock on the Turbo S is that its relatively everyday looks don't match the exoticism of its performance (and, okay, its price).
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Marley won a following outside Jamaica, specifically among white sophomores who were drawn to his exoticism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The craze for exoticism in the decorative arts reached a fever pitch; textiles were littered with pagodas and conical hats catering to growing tastes for Japonism.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 June 2018
  • For its spring festival, the company takes two prime examples of exoticism in Western opera and condenses each one into a ninety-minute adaptation.
    — The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • The exoticism of raccoons has spurred an arms race among cafe owners looking to lure patrons jaded by the thousands of dog and cat cafes that began opening in Seoul and other Asian cities two decades ago.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The mismatch of traditional garb, many wrote, further perpetuated the exoticism of Asian cultures.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Given this aim, the emphasis falls, almost unavoidably, on the exotic, and for the nonprofessional audience exoticism is a big part of the appeal.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019

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