All 7 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Of Human Bondage
- It was the first dawn of the aesthetic emotion.†
Chpt 17-18
- He came under the influence of Newman's Apologia; the picturesqueness of the Roman Catholic faith appealed to his esthetic sensibility; and it was only the fear of his father's wrath (a plain, blunt man of narrow ideas, who read Macaulay) which prevented him from "going over.'†
Chpt 25-26
- Men of letters, following in the painters' wake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discovered to possess inimitable drollery; there were those who found an aesthetic delight in performing dogs; while others exhausted their vocabulary to extol the distinction of conjurers and trick-cyclists.†
Chpt 41-42
- The pretty colour of the first, the affected drawing of the second, had entirely satisfied his aesthetic sensibilities.†
Chpt 43-44
- She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.†
Chpt 47-48
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as to your sense of the aesthetic.†
Chpt 87-88
- As the weaver elaborated his pattern for no end but the pleasure of his aesthetic sense, so might a man live his life,
Chpt 105-106 *aesthetic = appreciation of beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
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