How to Use aestheticism in a Sentence

aestheticism

noun

• Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of aestheticism, and Libras tend to treat their partners like works of art, adoring both their bodies and minds.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
• French and Japanese culture have that sort of aestheticism of perfection.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 28 Aug. 2017
• Perhaps Abloh is striving for a Flaubertian aestheticism.
  — Cody Delistraty, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2017
• The line is also the perfect tag for the provocateur’s particular brand of 20th-century aestheticism.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• There’s an ethical heft in the sacrifice, shaming mere aestheticism.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• The intrinsic aestheticism of this ancient art has revitalized interest in tarot, making it a social media favorite — there's now even such a thing as emoji tarot.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Feb. 2018
• Pater may have been a creature of 19th century spiritualism and aestheticism, his sensibility as alien to the Renaissance as to our own era of metrics and algorithms.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• Kandinsky, determined to counter French aestheticism with modes that were both earthier and less tied to observation, quickly attracted allies and followers.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Translating this book is not really about finding le mot juste because Döblin, who despised Thomas Mann’s fussy aestheticism, often seems little interested in the exercise himself.
  — Amanda Demarco, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• The movie’s sublime aestheticism contrasts ironically with the degradation resulting from Biswambhar’s passion for music.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The 20-something Wilde had earlier perfected the delivery of his pronouncements — the slow enunciation, the casual hand gesture — while lecturing on aestheticism and home decoration in America.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• But that quasi-documentary principle also puts his willful aestheticism under sharp scrutiny.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• Mandel infuses her novel with traditional aestheticism.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
• His practices—blending documentary and aestheticism, subjectivity and classicism—also made his characters’ romantic doings seem deceptively frivolous, their intellectual disputations ironically austere.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2020
• Frivolity, aestheticism, hedonism, cynicism, pessimism, narcissism, consumerism, materialism, nihilism, fatalism and fanaticism . .
  — Henry Porter, The Hive, 14 Aug. 2017

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