Nevertheless, Nagasaki was depicted in contemporary art and literature as a cosmopolitan port brimming with exotic curiosities from the Western World.

Nor should the piece, which will continue on a tour of the United States and Europe when it concludes its run at Lincoln Center on Sunday, be regarded as merely an exotic cultural curiosity.

The library is home to not only books, but also the hotel's collection of antiques and exotic curiosities, an old television set, and various pieces of Twilight Zone memorabilia scattered about the room.

The children treated her like an exotic curiosity and she tried to live up to their expectations.

In the 17th century, when the age-old warfare between Austria and the Ottoman Empire began to settle, the European image of Turks gradually shifted from fearsome threat to exotic curiosity.

The real question is whether they're likely to remain charming and exotic - if noisy - curiosities or to become the next invasive species, like kudzu or pigeons, crowding out native ones.

The tiny interloper, which measures two to three inches across, was regarded as something of an exotic curiosity when a handful were first discovered in Cape May in 1988.

If it had no more meaning for Jucundus than any other of the exotic curiosities which had been with it, then it might not even be missed for some time.

At times Ms. Fiennes seems guilty of socioeconomic and racial tourism, regarding the California churchgoers as nothing more than exotic curiosities.

This really was how Mandasars saw us, back years ago when we were exotic curiosities rather than day-to-day acquaintances.