All 15 Uses of
aesthetic
in
The Fountainhead
- Just keep me off esthetics if you want to keep me at all.†
Chpt 1.7esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- I am not in the habit of asking for the esthetic opinions of my draftsmen.
Chpt 1.8 *esthetic = opinions of what is beautiful
- Architecture is primarily a utilitarian conception, and the problem is to elevate the principle of pragmatism into the realm of esthetic abstraction.†
Chpt 1.8esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- No one could tell whether it was esthetic appreciation or hatred of his mother or both.†
Chpt 1.13
- It was stated that Cosmo-Slotnick were not merely the leaders in the art of the motion picture, but embraced all the arts, since all contributed to the creation of the films; and architecture being a lofty, though neglected, branch of esthetics, Cosmo-Slotnick were ready to put it on the map.†
Chpt 1.14esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- Of course, I can't say that it represents my own esthetic convictions, but people of culture must keep their minds open to anything, I mean, to include any viewpoint in creative art, we must be broad-minded above all, don't you think so?†
Chpt 2.6esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- Kiki's esthetic judgment is not yours—nor mine.†
Chpt 2.6
- Though not for esthetic enjoyment.†
Chpt 2.6
- Wonder what you'd accomplish if you decided to go all the way and sell your matchless body for purposes other than esthetic contemplation—in exchange for commissions for Peter Keating.†
Chpt 2.8
- It's only an esthetic fancy.†
Chpt 2.11
- Call it an esthetic one.†
Chpt 3.1
- His ethics are open to censure, but his esthetics were unimpeachable.†
Chpt 4.1esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- Absolutely wrong aesthetically.†
Chpt 4.7aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
- Other changes followed, of a purely esthetic nature.†
Chpt 4.12esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
- No one cared about an issue of esthetics.†
Chpt 4.12esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.