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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of aestheticise.

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Examples

  • The book was later said to be part of a fin-de-siècle artistic movement, characterised by a kind of aestheticised neuroticism, whose members were dubbed the décadents.

    Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today 2009

  • Julien's dramas have always been deliberately aestheticised, striving for a poetic quality; you know you're not watching a TV news bulletin.

    Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • Much of the rural imagery from the works of the Romantics included aestheticised, picturesque ruins from a previous age usually, although not always, Classical temples, columns and statues.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Mac 2006

  • All impressions are by it placed on a level, in so far as they are aestheticised.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • Purceys of this life, founded on a sense of property in this world and the next; nor were they precisely the morals and religion of the aristocracy, who, though aestheticised in parts, quietly used, in bulk, their fortified position to graft on Mr. Purcey's ethics the principle of 'You be damned!'

    Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900

  • Purceys of this life, founded on a sense of property in this world and the next; nor were they precisely the morals and religion of the aristocracy, who, though aestheticised in parts, quietly used, in bulk, their fortified position to graft on Mr. Purcey's ethics the principle of

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • The usual marble tables are there, and it is there we sat and aestheticised till two o'clock in the morning.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • We went out to dine, we went to the theatre, and after the theatre we went home and aestheticised till three in the morning.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • But all these efforts were sidelined by the left in their nation building enthusiasm and theoretical gratitude, engraved in the unconscious, due to the organic link to Brahmansim, (maybe existing as a scholastically oriented secular atheistic practice, in effect working as detached denouement in a genetically ordained socially stratified scenario,) to the aestheticised obscuranticism of Gandhian ideology.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • But all these efforts were sidelined by the left in their nation building enthusiasm and theoretical gratitude, engraved in the unconscious, due to the organic link to Brahmansim, (maybe existing as a scholastically oriented secular atheistic practice, in effect working as detached denouement in a genetically ordained socially stratified scenario,) to the aestheticised obscuranticism of Gandhian ideology.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

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