All 7 Uses of
aesthetic
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.†
Chpt 2
- We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan.†
Chpt 3
- It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist.†
Chpt 6
- This aesthetic ideal is calledkitsch.†
Chpt 6
- Sabina's initial inner revolt against Communism was aesthetic rather than ethical in character.
Chpt 6 *aesthetic = (having to do with) a sense of beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements.†
Chpt 6
- In point of fact, the French doctor displayed a finely honed aesthetic sensibility: the phrases President Carter, our traditional values, the barbarity of Communism all belong to the vocabulary ofAmerican kitsch and have nothing to do with the kitsch of the Grand March.†
Chpt 6
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