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

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 • Oct. 28, 2019

Ruskin calls this a narrow asceticism; perhaps it was rather the result of a very subtle aestheticism.

From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur