All 10 Uses of
aesthetic
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- "I always considered scientific opinion more objective than esthetic judgments," the Getty's curator of antiquities Marion True said when the truth about the kouros finally emerged.†
Chpt Intr.
- "From the beginning, the aesthetic scores lagged way behind the comfort scores," said Bill Dowell, who was research lead on the Aeron.†
Chpt 5
- We've tested thousands and thousands of people sitting in chairs, and one of the strongest correlations we've always found is between comfort and aesthetics.†
Chpt 5
- But the aesthetic scores started out between two and three and never got above six in any of our prototypes.†
Chpt 5
- "They didn't understand the aesthetic at all," says Dowell.†
Chpt 5
- "I remember one professor at Stanford who confirmed the concept and its function but said he wanted to be invited back when we got to an 'aesthetically refined prototype,' " Dowell remembers.†
Chpt 5
- "We were behind the glass saying, 'There isn't going to be an aesthetically refined prototype!'†
Chpt 5
- In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy.†
Chpt 5
- And what are the aesthetic scores today?†
Chpt 5
- Office chairs in people's minds had a certain aesthetic.
Chpt 5 *aesthetic = beauty or attractivenessunconventional 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