How to Use aestheticism in a Sentence

aestheticism

noun
  • There is some sort of atavistic aestheticism embedded in the French soul.
    — Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
  • The game the rivals play is beautiful, Lopez said, because of its aestheticism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Sontag, by contrast, was headed toward a kind of eroticized aestheticism.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • For the everyman who likes to host dinner parties, this aestheticism can create a certain pressure.
    — Amelia Abraham, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
  • There’s an ethical heft in the sacrifice, shaming mere aestheticism.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • French and Japanese culture have that sort of aestheticism of perfection.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of aestheticism, and Libras tend to treat their partners like works of art, adoring both their bodies and minds.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The scene exemplifies the rarefied aestheticism with which Anderson brings the turbulent and grand-scale drama to the screen.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The line is also the perfect tag for the provocateur’s particular brand of 20th-century aestheticism.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But that quasi-documentary principle also puts his willful aestheticism under sharp scrutiny.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
  • Locke came of age amid a Victorian wave of gay aestheticism that looked to classical art as inspiration for a new homosexual identity.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Really, there’s nothing pure about either cinema — a hybrid art form stamped from birth with the mark of commerce — or cinephilia, which combines lofty aestheticism with more visceral, less respectable forms of delight.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Kandinsky, determined to counter French aestheticism with modes that were both earthier and less tied to observation, quickly attracted allies and followers.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The movie’s sublime aestheticism contrasts ironically with the degradation resulting from Biswambhar’s passion for music.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Cronenberg knowingly implies that this is the least creative time in film history, and his scrutiny of aestheticism defines the horror of fake art — of junk like The Way of Water.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Dec. 2022
  • For all his refined aestheticism, Rudolph perceptively sketches the social realm that Emily confronts, the political-power grid of society at large.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Pater may have been a creature of 19th century spiritualism and aestheticism, his sensibility as alien to the Renaissance as to our own era of metrics and algorithms.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Translating this book is not really about finding le mot juste because Döblin, who despised Thomas Mann’s fussy aestheticism, often seems little interested in the exercise himself.
    — Amanda Demarco, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • That said, international filmmaking is in feeble shape, partly because of the jambalaya of international co-productions, partly because of the inroads of television aesthetics, and partly because of the cloistered aestheticism of self-conscious art-house cinema.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The 20-something Wilde had earlier perfected the delivery of his pronouncements — the slow enunciation, the casual hand gesture — while lecturing on aestheticism and home decoration in America.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • His practices—blending documentary and aestheticism, subjectivity and classicism—also made his characters’ romantic doings seem deceptively frivolous, their intellectual disputations ironically austere.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2020

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