aesthetic

Example Sentences

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The findings support what many pianists have believed for decades, while also offering a clearer understanding of how skilled movement creates emotional and aesthetic experiences in music.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

Film student Alice Garland is a fan of the noir aesthetic, and she feels the option is a "great way" to bring in newer audiences.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

But the idea that a human aesthetic would transcend ages in human history is no mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Many of them were Indigenous—long.and short-haired, light-and dark-complected, dressed like punks and clean girls and mob wives and everything else that had ever become an aesthetic.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith