All 10 Uses of
aesthetic
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Finally, fruit was brought in in what one of the texts takes the trouble to describe as a beautiful arrangement, thus adding an aesthetic touch comparable to the Egyptian use of flowers on such occasions.†
Chpt 7aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- —not because they had any love for the poor but because they had a love for things, brute matter—unsullied cities, aesthetic creations.†
Chpt 7
- How the annihilation is accomplished is an irrelevant detail, a matter of aesthetics.†
Chpt 11 *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.
- Freeman said, "Other things are aesthetically useful, appealing to the beauty-loving faculties of man, such as pictures and prints and poetry and pot-boilers and policeman-watching and playing the harmonicum."†
Chpt 13aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
- "The aesthetic response is in large part a response to order as moral affirmation," Freeman said.†
Chpt 13aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- An aesthetic side.†
Chpt 14
- "There is an aesthetic side to the question," Will said.†
Chpt 14
- Painters and musicians have a marked aesthetic proclivity.†
Chpt 14
- If the Universe is apprehended aesthetically, which is to say in terms of sensation—†
Chpt 14aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
- —of the aesthetic proclivity is, in one word, immm-oral!†
Chpt 14aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
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
or:
beautiful or tasteful -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.