aestheticism
Example Sentences
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The standoff between Blanche’s impractical aestheticism and Stanley’s ruthless pragmatism is the heart of this quintessentially American drama.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024
It all looks effortless because the power is married to aestheticism, and there isn't an extra note in the composition.
From BBC • May 23, 2023
The 20-something Wilde had earlier perfected the delivery of his pronouncements — the slow enunciation, the casual hand gesture — while lecturing on aestheticism and home decoration in America.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021
“And yet,” Harris writes, “the fact remains that we feel sentimental about things like camp, drag, and aestheticism now that they are disappearing into the oblivion of a world dominated by Coke commercials and sitcoms.”
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2019
Her sincerity was skirting upon the bold, almost the cynical, one might say, were it not that to her it is a system of life in which aestheticism has taken the place of ethics.
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
