aesthetic sense

Still, Sze seems to be saying, the shards and detritus we have before us can perhaps be unified — even if only fleetingly, before darker intimations take over — by our aesthetic sense, by our capacity for wonder.

Steel columns that look like trees are meant to “provide an aesthetic sense of place, evoking the woods of Western Pennsylvania,” the airport says.

The scope of their fame is certainly different, but, in an aesthetic sense, Alex and Ocean are kindred spirits.

“I mean ‘witchy’ not in anthropological or sociological sense, but in a pure aesthetic sense,” he said.

Charles Darwin knew this full well, observing in The Descent of Man that birds have a natural aesthetic sense.