aesthetic (exact matches only)

The authoritative certitude fixed in the canon according to this dictionary definition vividly illustrates the tendentiousness in the recent widespread adoption of the term for secular literary works, fostering as it does a tacit notion of a kind of synod of cultural authorities who have dictated a list of "genuine and inspired" writers, excluding proponents of the wrong ideological or aesthetic bent or the wrong gender or ethnicity.

Touted as a festival of high technology in an aesthetic dreamscape, the evening resembled a five-hour stopover in a second-rate German airport.

With that power she tried to thwart Gerald's deepest wishes: `The thought of any son of hers becoming a professional artist filled her with horror.' She had got him off to a crippling start because of her own taste, `which with the cocksureness of her Victorian mentality she believed to be the last word in artistic refinement ... for many years she continued to quote the opinions of her governesses on aesthetic matters'.

In light of this fact, I may have reached a peak of listening pleasure between 8:15 and 9:45 for physiological as much as aesthetic reasons.

Alain Delon first assumed the role in René Clément's lean 1960 thriller "Purple Noon," followed by the innately twisted Dennis Hopper in Wim Wenders's 1977 film, "The American Friend," a work less keyed to the Highsmith source than to the baroque aesthetic agenda of its director.

Here's a personal Top 5, based as much on pleasurable vibe and authentic feel as musical aesthetics, although that counts, too.

They're a far better guide to the complexity of Cornell's aesthetic imagination than anything in Mrs. Eddy's theology.

The new culture wars often spring from 9/11 itself, starting with the future, aesthetic and otherwise, of Ground Zero.

Submitted for your approval from both the "who could have known?" department and the adjoining office of "we knew it all along": BEST THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES For all the months of prerelease buildup, this package actually ended up being pretty straightforward - befitting the franchise's '30s aesthetic, there's no ADD-inducing assault of flashy, quick- cut extras.

He remembers Seinfeld’s looking askance at him while he protested the network’s aesthetic.

Libraries are the churches and cathedrals of the studious, not just storehouses of data and information, of books and journals, but places where the atmosphere of knowledge, its pursuit and contemplation, affects our scholarly feeling as our religious and aesthetic sensibilities can be stirred in places of worship.

But along with a constant headache of structural problems, the 1909 span provides one of the grandest aesthetic experiences in the city — the giant granite anchorages crossing Water Street in Brooklyn and Cherry Street in Manhattan.

The outcome is not just aesthetically pleasing.

Collectibles, which include everyday objects not made for aesthetic purposes, have slightly higher premiums.

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