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- noun Plural form of
aesthete .
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Examples
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My experience is that many players of MMOGs are aesthetes -- in other words, they're sensation-seekers, or novelty-seekers.
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The mistake our "aesthetes" made, these lovers of Egyptian dancers and Babylonian masks, is that they suppose the simplicity of Lamb's subjects debar him from the rare effects.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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I come from both Boston Brahmins and English aesthetes living in self-imposed simplicity and poverty.
Julie Gray: Our Country 'Tis of Thee Julie Gray 2011
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Alas, empires tend not to survive under aesthetes.
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The app is purely functional but aesthetes may find a curious beauty in that alone.
Consumer app of the week – jobcentreplus Mark King 2010
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Revolving around Peter and Rebecca Harris -- fortysomething aesthetes in Manhattan's SoHo, he an art dealer and she the editor of an independent art journal -- Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall" wants to be a novel of ideas, an inquiry into the relationship between beauty and meaning, but it can't sustain the weight of its own self-consciousness.
Book Review Roundup: Movie Flops, Reality TV And The Constitution The Huffington Post 2010
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Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) wrote “Bass Nightingale” for the contrabassoon as a deliberate provocation to so-called aesthetes.
Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte Mike McPhate 2010
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A rock star to cinematic aesthetes, Pedro Costa is more punk than Dutch provocateur Lars von Trier.
Fighting Hard to Be Seen Steve Dollar 2010
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Many aesthetes have been reconsidering the down comforter, some banishing it altogether.
Down With Comforters! Sara Ruffin Costello 2011
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Revolving around Peter and Rebecca Harris -- fortysomething aesthetes in Manhattan's SoHo, he an art dealer and she the editor of an independent art journal -- Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall" wants to be a novel of ideas, an inquiry into the relationship between beauty and meaning, but it can't sustain the weight of its own self-consciousness.
Book Review Roundup: Movie Flops, Reality TV And The Constitution The Huffington Post 2010
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