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aesthetic principle



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In the tradition of similarly made first features like Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” and John Cassavetes’s “Shadows,” it is a movie that raises pragmatic invention to an aesthetic principle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

It also expressed an important aesthetic principle in dance: The smallest movements can rock the crowd if they surprise the eye, connect with the music and touch some aspect of our own humanity.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2020

This is their recipe for never growing up, and Zeitlin appears to have adopted it as an aesthetic principle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2020

But it was hard for me to find fault with Sanchez’s underlying aesthetic principle: Popeyes fried chicken is fantastic.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2019

In this somewhat involved aesthetic principle there is probably another hint at the causes of the sadness people show when they look at the lake.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht




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