All 24 Uses of
aesthetic
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- Aesthetics.†
Chpt 1
- 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 2
- Aesthetics.†
Chpt 2
- "Aesthetics?" the father asked.†
Chpt 2
- …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 2
- I was about to become a professor of aesthetics.†
Chpt 6
- 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….†
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 8
- Your field is aesthetics?†
Chpt 8
- For me it's purely justice-not so much utilitarian, but aesthetic.†
Chpt 8
- I do my accounting as a matter of aesthetics.†
Chpt 9
- The war is responsible for that, although war itself has no aesthetic.†
Chpt 9
- 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
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