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
The aestheticism of the Glasgow school, of which we have heard so much lately, is identical with that of the New English Art Club, and the two societies are in a measure affiliated.
From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore
