| Of course, from beneath the seductive exotica, dark underbellies of distant locales show through. |
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| Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat. |
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| These days a whole new realm of exotica arises out of the way one culture colours and appropriates the products of another. |
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| Somewhere between the gaudy lowlands of kitsch and the earnest highlands of world music sits the mythic, mixed-up realm of exotica. |
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| Selling part of her jewellery, she carved out a concept, a dazzling mix of festivity and art, packaged exotica and high culture. |
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| Expect elaborate costumes, long veils, beading, exotica, pole dancing and classic strip tease. |
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| What this kind of criticism ends up doing frequently is to reduce the role of the Indian artist to that of a vendor of exotica. |
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| I did not enter their raffles for bottles of Russian vodka or other exotica. |
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| A collection of remixed tiki exotica really gets you straddling both sides of the fence. |
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| There was, in the year I went, a medieval market that was filled with tidbits amid the smells of herbs and exotica. |
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| You can have a slice of Italian exotica in the form of the Alfa 166 3.0, a car with one of the best engines ever built. |
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| He found new species of Chinese evergreens, dracaena, Begonia exotica, sansevieria of Ceylon and the first white African violet. |
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| Not to create one mired in exotica and anthropology, but one that felt so local that it became universal. |
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| But Marc Collin, the French producer who has masterminded Nouvelle Vague parts I and II, has made a deliberate move towards exotica. |
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| However, D. citri survived on pruned hedges of Murraya exotica but is now rarely seen on citrus, even on neglected trees. |
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| In recent years literature has seen a profusion of irony and exotica, as if writers are too exhausted to keep up the fight, and instead hope to distract us. |
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| The exotica flowers theme confers a new kind of modernity to the swimwear collection. |
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| Echoes of early exotica and evocative jazz can be heard throughout the album, but Hassell pieces it together in an odd, original fashion. |
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| People travel the world to see weird exotic authentic stuff, and yet right here in Britain is one of the weirdest most authentic pieces of exotica I have ever encountered. |
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| We are less interested in exotica than cases which entailed interdisciplinary management and raised challenging clinical, management, or ethical issues. |
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| As well as being tempted by the exotica of far flung destinations, there are also dozens of stands designed to encourage Irish people to holiday at home. |
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| There's a touch of Middle Eastern mystique and exotica in this new range. |
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| Perhaps considering the delicate ecosystem as well as the 28 rare or threatened species, Christmas Island does not want to encourage tourists to gorge on its exotica. |
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| In their case, this meant drawing on free jazz, samba, religious song, blues, and exotica. |
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| We may need the illusion of nature more than the Victorians needed the exotica of it. |
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| Freed from the pressure to encounter ethnic and racialised difference as exotica, we can face up to the ordinariness of plurality. |
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| The standards like spag bol and arrabiata were there while meatballs and marinated chicken provided the nearest glimpse of exotica. |
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| His menus have included the exotica of pandan leaves, waterlily herbs, betelnut and nuoc mam. |
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| The Bond films have nodded to geopolitics but genuflected toward exotica, and the hero is, in himself, a wild concoction — the free-range spy, roaming abroad in the service of a nonexistent empire back home. |
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| Shirana Chavda of De Montfort University showed her print collection at the Graduate Fashion Week Gala show, combining wearability with blown-up tropical prints inspired by exotica – chameleons, peacocks and feathers. |
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| Yet in the same year an 'acclimatization garden' was created to help the establishment of exotica in what was the beginning of the Botanical Gardens. |
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| What began in physical harmony, propitious for planets, humans and domestic appliances, has reverted to hell:temperatures hotter than the sun's core, an exotica of hysterical matter, forces rupturing asunder. |
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| Obviously, European exotica is usually capable of stupendous velocity, but they often temper that ability with equally stupendous luxury and a price tag to match. |
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| The Michelin supercar enclosure will be stuffed with exotica, including two Koenigsegg megacars. |
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| Shyness has become 'social anxiety disorder', bereavement is soon to be easily called 'major depressive disorder', and even exotica such as hebephilia may get a look in. |
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| The vehicle will be available in six colours including the Zafferano Orange shade, Bronzo Tan, Minimum Grey, Exotica Red, Hip-Hop Black and Vocal white. |
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| And I heard that Tony Roberts of Santa Cruz Speed Wheels fame lived nearby, but was away on another sick surfboat trip somewhere in Exotica. |
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