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

The standoff between Blanche’s impractical aestheticism and Stanley’s ruthless pragmatism is the heart of this quintessentially American drama.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

Yet Martelli’s detailed, beautiful frames aren’t signs of empty aestheticism.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

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.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021

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