How to Use aesthete in a Sentence

aesthete

noun
  • He regards art critics as a bunch of pretentious aesthetes.
  • Ahead, the four best places for aesthetes of all creeds in Round Top.
    Jaimie Potters, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Marble, to the lament of every aesthete, comes up short.
    Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 23 Sep. 2017
  • These are unique pieces of cookware that would make a great gift for the culinary aesthete in your life.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Just as a madeleine once summoned the memories of a Parisian aesthete, this offprint...
    WSJ, 24 Mar. 2017
  • In this new work, set in and around a mud pit, a young aesthete tries to persuade his grubby hedonists to de-ooze.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Working class Tom drinks beer and falls asleep at classical recitals, while posh Patrick is a scotch-and-opera aesthete.
    Katie Rife, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For that, the label’s reputation runs on the tastes of a small group of aesthetes -- and at 55, Raymonde is still hand-picking a huge swath of the artists.
    Zane Warman, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Since college, Systrom has been a photo buff and an aesthete, not just a tech wizard.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Instead, Losey—also a leftist, but an aesthete of a different stripe—got the job.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Any aesthete in your life or friend who listens to Drake on long, contemplative walks will freak out over this.
    Vanessa Powell, ELLE, 21 Nov. 2022
  • From Marrakech to London and back again, the above is certain to inspire your own inner aesthete—and whet your appetite for more.
    Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Wondering how to shop for the aesthete who is always going on about clean lines, symmetries and scale?
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • That tension between past and present is why Taormina has drawn writers, artists, and aesthetes for centuries.
    Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
  • That tension between past and present is why Taormina has drawn writers, artists, and aesthetes for centuries.
    Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
  • Under the watchful care of the struggling Mary, Roy became a precocious aesthete.
    Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • In addition to novelists and filmmakers, the book and movie of The Leopard have served as touchstones for a broad array of aesthetes.
    James McAuley, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2019
  • While the cool girl DJs prefer Nike sneakers and Prada platforms, the artists and aesthetes alternate between a loafer and a gold stiletto for a night out.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Why, exactly, does Harris—an aesthete in every way—love them so much?
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • If a sampling of some classical music aesthetes on social media is to be believed, April 16 marked the day the music died.
    Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Povey, an aesthete with money troubles, sent the kneeling statues to Blathwayt.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • From cities that took in neighbors fleeing firestorms and towns that enthrall aesthetes worldwide to local celebrations of the weird, the offbeat and the unique, the next big thing is still in the Golden State.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • In this and other areas, this is the kind of movie Hollywood once made its world-wide reputation on, scorned by the aesthetes, adored by the multitudes.
    James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
  • Learning to be an aesthete in middle age, as Nemerov has, is like taking tango lessons in your fifties: the spirit is admirable, but the moves are awkward.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Now Mérida is experiencing a second wave as more and more artists, entrepreneurs, and aesthetes choose to call it home.
    Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Or that having those organs removed through surgery has become, for a creepy rebel aesthete named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a species of performance art?
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2022
  • But, as any aesthete well knows, creating a good glamorous interior isn't just about piling on the glitz.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 Mar. 2019
  • No one is as smitten as Evert Dax, a shy aesthete whose appreciation of the younger man has the coloring of obsession.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2011
  • One of nine siblings, Barragán was an avid equestrian and a precocious aesthete.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2016
  • That was possibly the last time Bieber sent Beckham a press gift from his Drew House fashion line, but over the past few years, even the most cold-blooded aesthetes have given into the amphibious clog.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 27 July 2023

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