All 5 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Steppenwolf
- An artless esthetic criticism, then, keeps its highest praise for this so-called character-drama in which each character makes his appearance unmistakably as a separate and single entity.†
- Only from afar and by degrees the suspicion dawns here and there that all this is perhaps a cheap and superficial esthetic philosophy, and that we make a mistake in attributing to our great dramatists those magnificent conceptions of beauty that come to us from antiquity.†
- Just as the gramophone contaminated the esthetic and intellectual atmosphere of my study and just as the American dances broke in as strangers and disturbers, yes, and as destroyers, into my carefully tended garden of music, so, too, from all sides there broke in new and dreaded and disintegrating influences upon my life that, till now, bad been so sharply marked off and so deeply secluded.†
- ...to be seriously and responsibly active instead of occupying myself forever with nothing but esthetics and intellectual and artistic pursuits.
*esthetics = beauty
- Maria's loving words, her fond and tender looks tore large gaps in the bulwark of my esthetics.†
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful