estheticism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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However, what it seems chiefly to represent is a neurotic literary and pictorial estheticism with which I am completely out of sympathy, and with which I would rather not be associated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some touch of austere estheticism in it has fascinated you.
From Time Magazine Archive
Religion has a depth which art needs lest it become tempted to estheticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many another Wilde wisecrack�Biographer Winwar believes�that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is, indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change.
From Anarchism and Other Essays by Goldman, Emma
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