All 24 Uses
aesthetic
in
A Soldier of the Great War
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- Aesthetics.†
Chpt 1aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- What are aesthetics?†
Chpt 1
- Aesthetics.†
Chpt 1
- What are aesthetics?†
Chpt 1
- "About aesthetics," Alessandro said, rolling his eyes upward.†
Chpt 1
- A student of aesthetics and philosophy, in training to see the patterns in which one thing was differentiated from another, Alessandro noticed this immediately.†
Chpt 2
- And he did, pacing back and forth one evening at dusk, until his intellect was overpowered by his stomach, and he decided to abandon meditation on the aesthetic in favor of grilled veal chops.†
Chpt 2aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Aesthetics.†
Chpt 2aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- "Aesthetics?" the father asked.†
Chpt 2
- Orfeo had begun to describe in spectacular detail the "gracious luminous sap that falls like the blood of the Cross from the tree in the valley of the bonewhite mountains that circle the moon," when Alessandro produced from his vest pocket the beautiful fountain pen with which he wrote anything and everything-his essays on aesthetics, his departmental examinations, letters declaring love to married women in Bologna who dared not answer, summaries of account, instructions for feeding his horse, epistles (also never answered) to the prime minister of Italy.†
Chpt 2
- Upon such observations, because they came so thick and full, he had begun to build an arsenal of uncoordinated aesthetic principles.†
Chpt 2aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- I was about to become a professor of aesthetics.†
Chpt 6aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- And he was ready to marshal the principles of intuition, analogy, sympathy, historicism, intellectualism, spiritualism, the relation of physics to aesthetics, various schools of theology.... But in the end, he realized, it was all talk, lovely talk, with no power.†
Chpt 6
- Faculty of Aesthetics.†
Chpt 7
- My field was the aesthetics of painting.
Chpt 7 *aesthetics = the study of what is beautifulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- The behavior of light is to aesthetics what physics is to engineering.†
Chpt 8aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- Your field is aesthetics?†
Chpt 8
- For me it's purely justice-not so much utilitarian, but aesthetic.†
Chpt 8aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- I do my accounting as a matter of aesthetics.†
Chpt 9aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- The war is responsible for that, although war itself has no aesthetic.†
Chpt 9aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Characters do not reappear where, by the dictates of a peaceful aesthetic, they should, for they have been killed.†
Chpt 9
- The lack of an aesthetic empowers the extremes, and they depict war inaccurately, either glorifying it or glorifying its horror, whereas it is somewhere between pure horror and pure glory, with touches of both.†
Chpt 9
- The aesthetic of the West was bound with the principles of religion, and its religion was bound to the principles of aesthetic.†
Chpt 10
- The aesthetic of the West was bound with the principles of religion, and its religion was bound to the principles of aesthetic.†
Chpt 10
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
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beautiful or tasteful -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.