Example Sentences

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In all his brilliance, LeBron James’ game was never esthetically pleasing: Since his get-out-the-vote efforts, his jumper looks so much more fluid, no?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020

Now, if you decide to punt the $10,000 range, the balanced lineup of beginning with $9,000 players may be more esthetically pleasing to look at on the page.

From Golf Digest • May 15, 2019

Even more than Mr. Malkovich did, Mr. Driver makes us aware that real grandeur doesn’t always come in the expected, esthetically pleasing packages.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2019

“The official cinema all over the world is running out of breath. It is morally corrupt, esthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring,” the group announced in its founding manifesto.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2019

The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical....

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer