aestheticism

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Some writers and artists who initially championed boundary-pushing aestheticism later found a spiritual home in the Catholic Church.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It all looks effortless because the power is married to aestheticism, and there isn't an extra note in the composition.

From BBC • May 23, 2023

The game the rivals play is beautiful, Cathedral coach Arturo Torres said, because of its aestheticism.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 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.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022

But it is not until we come to deal with his socialism that we see how entirely aestheticism is the primal source from which all his energies spring. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore