What is "oriented"

Usage examples of "oriented".

As many worlds had been colonized for idealist forms of government, religiously or secularly oriented, as for purely commercial considerations.

He was also pigheaded, dogmatic, insensitive, regulation-hedged and so narrowly oriented as to prevent any vestige of imagination or intuitive thinking from coloring his mental processes for a microsecond.

The Ego and the Eco as flip sides of the same flat and faded coin, both oriented toward the same great interlocking order, however much their responses to it indeed varied (the Ego trying to get out of it, the Eco trying to get into it).

Dragonrider-human ones could get very complicated and the green dragons, being so highly-strung and sexually oriented, were the most complex.

The reason is that the orthodox and positivistically oriented researchers "turned from the ephemeral realm of attitudes and feelings .

It recommended ascetic, sometimes harsh discipline, always oriented toward a withdrawal of attention from the senses, from the body, from the earth, and above all from sexuality (and therefore woman)all of which were looked upon as temptations or much worse (even though all were "theoretically" creations of the Good).

In their understandable zeal to go transrational, they often embrace any prerational occasion simply because it is nonrationalany occasion that looks biocentrically oriented, from horticultural planting mythology to rampant tribalism to blood magic and sensual glorification of a sentimental nature, all in the name, of course, of saving Gaia.

It was established about three hundred years ago by a tightly knit, religiously oriented group.

She oriented herself to it, following a great circular route that would pass directly over it.

They came to his mind as he stood, waiting as his elders discussed him over his head: obedience, silence, competence, humility, striving towards perfection in all things, and always keeping oriented to the Center of Thelerie.

She was now fully trained in a medically oriented Talent, so it was unlikely that she'd be asked to assume the responsibilities of a Tower.

Nothing would matter until adaptation, for none of the lectures and work had been specifically oriented toward the role of the Singer: nothing had been explained about the art of cutting crystal from the face, or how to tune a cutter, or where in the ranges to go.

I do, at least I think I do, understand now why our totally unprepared and scientifically oriented teams could not psychologically cope with their-shall I call it .

He stared about him, wondering if he had missed a drum message, and then oriented himself.

Master Fandarel had ordered several crates of machine parts to be transferred to a warehouse where he and other mechanically oriented Masters and journeymen were attempting to make sense out of such quixotic wealth.