aesthete

• “‡ The term aesthete is sometimes used negatively to describe someone whose pursuit of beauty is excessive or appears phony.”

  aesthetics

• “The absolute disdain for politics of the aesthete is in itself a political choice.”

  Politics and Literature

• “The aesthete from the East has come out west and cut Ansel Adams down to size.”

  Ansel Adams at 100

• “Yes, aesthete, that is why I bought that up to dpaitsel, penguin2”

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• “When Brophy first met Sir Anthony, at dinner among the sailors and art students "probably both," she suggested of his Courtauld Institute apartment, not even the British security service knew that the aesthete was their betrayer.”

  Hi-pri spy-guy here

• “The prime motivation for the aesthete is the transformation of the boring into the interesting.”

  Søren Kierkegaard

• “The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist -- or religious aesthete, which is it?”

  Sylvie and Bruno

• “I'm perfectly willing to accept the label of "aesthete," although I know it's meant to be a term of horrible abuse.”

  Politics and Literature

• “And if we are to talk about 'aesthete' looking better than 'aesthete', I really think have to say I think 'cosy' looks 'cosier' than 'cozy'...”

  languagehat.com: THE CRACK.

• “I, for one, am not the kind of aesthete who wants to "disavow the obvious content of the work.”

  Interesting discussions elsewhere regarding the "Literary"

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