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
Fortunately the landlord had never heard the aesthetic principle that exposure of basic construction is more desirable than gaudy decoration.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane
