aestheticism

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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

Annette’s Marion Cottillard and Adam Driver play the role of intoxicating and toxic lovers without reservation, giving their sex a camp-like aestheticism primed for voyeurism.

From Slate

The centrepiece of this area of academia and aestheticism was a giant hall, the manifestation of Prince Albert's idea of a hub where people could gather and share ideas.

From BBC

Nishii unlocks Japanese pronunciations that would have challenged me, while exercising fitting restraint when relating the delicate aestheticism and emotional ambivalence of this incomparable work, generally regarded as the world’s earliest novel.

From Seattle Times

The group favored the sensualists among the late Victorians — Rossetti and especially Swinburne — and Rosenblitt brings out their “pagan” aestheticism as it emerged in illustrations and motifs of the faun and the goat-god Pan.

From New York Times