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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aestheticize.

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Examples

  • This echoes Patrick Leray's highly recommended Guernica Mag article: "So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins."

    Helene Bienvenu: Detroit 'Ruin Porn' Goes Commercial -- In a Swatch Helene Bienvenu 2011

  • This echoes Patrick Leray's highly recommended Guernica Mag article: "So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins."

    Helene Bienvenu: Detroit 'Ruin Porn' Goes Commercial -- In a Swatch Helene Bienvenu 2011

  •   But there's no reasoning with a woman who self-aestheticizes — if that's a word — in the hope that it will make her stand out in the crowded field of disturbed young poetesses.

    A Day in the Life of a Hip-Hop Grants Administrator 2010

  • Halperin's version of Greek alterity — they invert our models of inversion — indicates that alterity can disfigure the messiness of sexuality even when it aestheticizes it, makes it symmetrical.

    The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

  • Yet Kant finally aestheticizes Leibniz, claiming that he meant only to express a view of the world that is true in its own way.

    Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008

  • The art of cruelty aestheticizes violence, in not necessarily scrupulous ways.

    NYT > Home Page By LAURA KIPNIS 2011

  • This echoes Patrick Leray's highly recommended Guernica Mag article: "So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Helene Bienvenu 2011

  • Set almost entirely in a Northern Ireland prison, it aestheticizes jail without making it look pretty.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the massacre the visual style aestheticizes the violence into harmlessness.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • It's hard to know what Barney is thinking, but he seems to view whaling as an honorable tradition, just as he aestheticizes everything that he depicts in Japan.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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