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

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

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

For instance, he fluctuated between the ardors of a pagan and an anchorite, at one hour re�mbracing aestheticism, at another fleeing back to a bleak sanctuary where he hoped to escape some vague, immense reproach.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French