estheticism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Thus the passionate imagination of love renders a loved one beautiful�and, in the process, stimulates the soul of the lover to triumphs of estheticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His chief delight seems to be that France, whence final decrees on the vague modern estheticism emanate, fell headlong Into his trap.
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
"Indeed," exclaimed the fastidious Marechale, whose religion was evidently a becoming phase of estheticism, "do not believe that."
From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere
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