esthete
Example Sentences
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In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016
Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016
To Connolly, art is a fragile thing, and its maker a highly vulnerable esthete.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it began, five years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob."
From Time Magazine Archive
But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
