esthetical
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They may very likely enjoy it, for they will see nothing dainty or esthetical in Fancy Free, the surprise hit of Manhattan's booming ballet season.
From Time Magazine Archive
That he could leave nothing out was, it may be said, his strongest esthetical defect, for it is by esthetical judgment that we choose and bring together those elements as we conceive it.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
Esthetic or esthetical refers to beauty or the appreciation of the beautiful, especially from the philosophic point of view.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
The corporeal nature of man--his complexion, his physiognomy, his stature; the intellectual nature of man--his religious, ethical, and esthetical ideas are all modified by his surroundings.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
And the most striking of them is that at bottom he is seldom able to put himself in a purely esthetical mood.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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