The term aesthete is sometimes used negatively to describe someone whose pursuit of beauty is excessive or appears phony. From Wordnik.com. [aesthetics] Reference
The aesthete from the East has come out west and cut Ansel Adams down to size. From Wordnik.com. [Ansel Adams at 100] Reference
The absolute disdain for politics of the aesthete is in itself a political choice. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and Literature] Reference
Yes, aesthete, that is why I bought that up to dpaitsel, penguin2. From Wordnik.com. [2012 Presidential Elections: Scott Brown, Ron Paul & The CPAC Straw Poll | RedState] Reference
The prime motivation for the aesthete is the transformation of the boring into the interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Søren Kierkegaard] Reference
The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist -- or religious aesthete, which is it?. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference
Some people are really invested in aesthete. From Wordnik.com. [The DNC thinks shooting at Republicans ‘appropriate.’ [And a fundraising opportunity!] | RedState] Reference
I, for one, am not the kind of aesthete who wants to "disavow the obvious content of the work.". From Wordnik.com. [Interesting discussions elsewhere regarding the "Literary"] Reference
Remember, I'm the "aesthete" who thinks it would …. From Wordnik.com. [Stand Firm] Reference
He was certainly a sensitive aesthete in the French mode. From Wordnik.com. [He Made Pantsuits Suit Working Women] Reference
What Raymundo is is a total aesthete, not an intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys] Reference
Hitler was an aesthete who knew Wagner's operas very well. From Wordnik.com. [Why Israel Still Shuts Wagner Out] Reference
Could the shallow artist be a front for a serious aesthete?. From Wordnik.com. [Koons��� Expensive Distractions Clutter Met���s Summer Rooftop] Reference
Woe to the fool and the aesthete who only ask how and not why. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
It all seems like the overwrought musings of an aesthete to me. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
That finished ugliness turned spiritual -- a self-flagellated aesthete. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Yet how else was an aesthete to make a living except as some sort of runner?. From Wordnik.com. [Old Masters, New World] Reference
An aesthete and a snob, Philip sold only books he deemed worthy of being read. From Wordnik.com. [The Beach House]
Also, of course, he was simpler in his tastes; something of an aesthete, which I am not. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Maybe not: she's the pure aesthete, her eye always pressed to a lens, real or metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies Abounding] Reference
Matisse was a cultivated man who was comfortable in urban culture: an aesthete and a Parisian. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference
Plato believed in the value of beauty and, being more than a mere modern aesthete, held no skindeep creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
And he was a very sybaritic, aesthete, very fat -- loved food, loved the good life, didn't care for details. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation] Reference
Fearless, a twisted aesthete, mystified the attendees with an obscure dissertation about the Golden Age of Reverb. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Simmons: The Reporter and Daniel Johnston] Reference
A tall, thin, bare-headed blond with the face of a merry aesthete and a nervous manner leaned against the doorframe. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
But when asked why she doesn't take the posters down, she laughs, and you hear the voice of a librarian, not an aesthete. From Wordnik.com. [Mies's modernist D.C. library building is getting a complementary companion] Reference
The exquisite aesthete was smitten with her plaster-cast palm trees, artful rugs by Marion Dorn, and whimsical ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc] Reference
And there are excellent contributions from Ian Gelder as the liberal aesthete and Abigail McKern as the free-swearing Aussie. From Wordnik.com. [Lingua Franca] Reference
In Brideshead Revisited Anthony Blanche, the Oxford aesthete, teaches Charles Ryder a lesson about the English upper classes. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of the Artist] Reference
Thats when I take down one of my favorite books: an oral biography of the charismatic American aesthete named George Plimpton. From Wordnik.com. [Tasting The Flavors Of Life As Only 'George' Could] Reference
These characters personify respectively Boileau and what we could call an 18th century aesthete before the coining of the word. From Wordnik.com. [18th Century French Aesthetics] Reference
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