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

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

The night I went, Dorian happened to be female, and something clicked into place that stupidly wasn’t so obvious to me on first reading the story decades ago: it isn’t merely a moral fable about vanity and a treatise on aestheticism, but also a story about the shifting relationship between character and looks, and the point at which one starts to supersede the other.

From The Guardian