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Meanings of orientalists in English
Person who studies Oriental cultures.
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Examples for "orientalist"
Examples for "orientalist"
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Nothing like a dazzling Broadway musical adaptation to reinforce troubling orientalist stereotypes, then.
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But of course no seasoned orientalist has any idea of dying without seeing India.
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The image of Venetian tourist kitsch gives way to the stereotype of cut-price orientalist finery.
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Her perfume of orientalist fantasy casts the onlooker as a decadent connoisseur of sensual pleasure.
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What Arthur Probsthain, who was a distinguished orientalist, would have made of it is a moot point.
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Sir William Jones, the famous Oriental scholar, altered this rule to suit himself.
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Second, all Oriental scholars and writers supposed that this was his native city.
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To the celebrated traveller and Oriental scholar I introduced myself.
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Some Oriental scholars think that they had also learned many things from Christian sources.
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The dilemma is one familiar to all Oriental scholars.
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Second, all Oriental scholars and writers supposed that this was his native city.
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Some Oriental scholars think that they had also learned many things from Christian sources.
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The dilemma is one familiar to all Oriental scholars.
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Sanskrit has only recently become known to Europe through the researches of English and German Oriental scholars.
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Few are the Oriental scholars in England who could do justice to this picture of the mediaeval Arab.
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Baqer Moin is a BBC Correspondent and Central Asia specialist.
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Reuters Asia specialists in financials, autos, technology and the resources industry provide insights on current trends.
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Reuters Asia specialists in financials, resources, technology and the autos sectors provide insights on current trends.
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Arjuna Mahendran is an Asia specialist and the Chief Investment officer at Emirates National Bank of Dubai.
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BBC Central Asia specialist Baqer Moin about the violent and dramatic revolutions happening now in North Africa and Middle Eastern countries.
Usage of orientalists in English
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The chronology of these periods varies according to the systems of different orientalists.
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This tablet, called the Rosetta Stone, was sent to France and submitted to the orientalists for interpretation.
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At Oxford and Cambridge Universities, there were the most enlightened theologians, classicists, orientalists, philologists, mathematicians, chemists, architects, and musicians.
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I felt great relief in studying with my friend Clerval, and found not only instruction but consolation in the works of the orientalists.
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If, in spite of the Orientalists and the conjecture of M.F.
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Professor Maspero is one of the most famous of living Orientalists.
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And if controverted, the Orientalists will have to account for this strange inconsistency.
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Sankaracharya's date is variously given by Orientalists, but always after Christ.
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Some of your Western Orientalists have it in their books.
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And why is it that the Orientalists will not give it more serious attention?
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Orientalists, however, are like poets and musicians, a rageous race.
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These two Orientalists are instances, because they are accepted beacons of philology and Indian paleography.
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The Orientalists are very orthodox on this point.
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They were the Vernacularists in the famous controversy between the Orientalists and the Anglicists raised by Duff.
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The Orientalists think that the naive Bhils comes from the Sanskrit root bhid, which means to separate.
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Of some dozens of eminent Orientalists, no two agree, even in their verbatim translation of Sanskrit texts.
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