All 6 Uses
aesthetic
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Sula
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- Conventional wisdom agrees that political fiction is not art; that such work is less likely to have aesthetic value because politics—all politics—is agenda and therefore its presence taints aesthetic production.†
Chpt Frwd.aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Conventional wisdom agrees that political fiction is not art; that such work is less likely to have aesthetic value because politics—all politics—is agenda and therefore its presence taints aesthetic production.†
Chpt Frwd.
- In 1970, when I began writing Sula, I had already had the depressing experience of reading commentary on my first novel, The Bluest Eye, by both black and white reviewers that—with two exceptions—had little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the "aesthetics only" criteria it championed.†
Chpt Frwd.aesthetics = 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 since my sensibility was highly political and passionately aesthetic, it would unapologetically inform the work I did.†
Chpt Frwd. *aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- I waited for Sula to look up at me any minute and say one of those lovely college words like aesthetic or rapport, which I never understood but which I loved because they sounded so comfortable and firm.†
Chpt 1937
- Sexual aesthetics bored her.†
Chpt 1939aesthetics = 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.
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.