Examples of aestheticism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But that quasi-documentary principle also puts his willful aestheticism under sharp scrutiny. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022 Mandel infuses her novel with traditional aestheticism. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022 The line is also the perfect tag for the provocateur’s particular brand of 20th-century aestheticism. — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022 The movie’s sublime aestheticism contrasts ironically with the degradation resulting from Biswambhar’s passion for music. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021 Kandinsky, determined to counter French aestheticism with modes that were both earthier and less tied to observation, quickly attracted allies and followers. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021 There’s an ethical heft in the sacrifice, shaming mere aestheticism. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 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. — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021 His practices—blending documentary and aestheticism, subjectivity and classicism—also made his characters’ romantic doings seem deceptively frivolous, their intellectual disputations ironically austere. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2020 See More

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