aestheticism
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Nishii unlocks Japanese pronunciations that would have challenged me, while exercising fitting restraint when relating the delicate aestheticism and emotional ambivalence of this incomparable work, generally regarded as the world’s earliest novel.
From Seattle Times
Mendes’ films have had a weakness for overly pristine surfaces — in evidence since his Oscar-winning debut feature, “American Beauty” — and his coolly detached, slightly bloodless aestheticism makes for an odd but fascinating fit with the war movie, a genre that often encourages filmmakers to unleash a full-blown sensory assault.
From Los Angeles Times
After that goal at Southend, Barry-Murphy and Rochdale were hailed as outliers: ambassadors for aestheticism amid the barbarism of League One.
From New York Times
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.
From Washington Post
The lofty aestheticism of the town and of Frankie’s circle is more than a mark and a privilege of money: it’s a spillover of artists’ work into their lives and surroundings.
From The New Yorker
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