AESTHETIC in a Sentence

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The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received.

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 Meanings and Examples of AESTHETIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aesthetic
 a.  elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
Classic Sentence:
1  Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  A man who advocates aesthetic effort and deprecates social effort is only likely to be understood by a class to which social effort has become a stale matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3  Chichikov graciously settled the man's account, and, as soon as he had gone, paraded at leisure, and con amore, and after the manner of an artist of aesthetic taste, before the mirror.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  Between artists and cultured socialists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  The new building has little aesthetic value/appeal.
2  Fashion, is a kind of aesthetic view.
3  Also present is the concept of aesthetic pleasure emerging as a by-product of the successful ordering of complex data.
4  The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received.
5  His mind was reeling with an almost aesthetic delight at the beauty of the thing.
6  He responded very strongly to the aesthetic of this particular work.
7  Kenneth Cole, the American designer known for his modern, urban aesthetic, is hawking $35 T-shirts.