What is "esthetic"

Usage examples of "esthetic".

Such Borgesian speculations only begin to assign this highly reprintable book its true esthetic weight.

Through the wide range of repetitions where all the levels of composition and structure concur in a common Donjuanesque examination of time, Kundera achieves a fascinating novelistic synthesis in which the esthetic, erotic, ethical, playful and cognitive functions combine as in a single semantic river.

The double inclusion of his donjuanesque questioning of time, which is both a principle of writing and a thematic goal, creates a fascinating synthesis of the novel where, as we have seen many times, the esthetic, ethical, erotic and historical functions combine in a single existential flow.

I must answer in the negative, and I hope that you too, you who are not inmates of mental hospitals, will regard me as nothing more than an eccentric who, for private and what is more esthetic reasons, though to be sure the advice of Bebra my mentor had something to do with it, rejected the cut and color of the uniforms, the rhythm and tone of the music normally played on rostrums, and therefore drummed up a bit of protest on an instrument that was a mere toy.

Economics, esthetics, law and the other forms of thought cannot supply its meaning, for war is politics at its highest intensity.

It did not matter much that esthetics became independent, for the only art form in the West which still had a future, Western Music, paid no attention to theories and continued on its grand creative course to its end in Wagner and his epigones.

It was a functional, solid sort of place, not really in keeping with the elevated esthetics of the Custodians.

In distinction to the ring, it is a crude, simple piece, designed without any esthetics at all.

So he works for speed rather than esthetics, and a few minutes later sorts through the pile of organs and throws the edible parts along with the gutted corpse into the big cooler in the back of his van, and heads for home, two states east.

In addition to staving off esthetic nightmares, I must entertain a society larded with courtcards, goosecaps, and totty-headed rattles.

Idly he stroked her body in a tender but nonsexual way, his hand traveling lightly along her flanks, her belly, her cheeks, a purely esthetic enjoyment, simply enjoying the smoothness of her, the firmness of her skin and the taut flesh and muscle beneath it, the way he might stroke a finely carved statuette, or a thoroughbred racing-bandar, or a perfectly thrown porcelain bowl.

Such exploration of the possibilities clearly shows that the Kunderian esthetic, far from being governed by the dual principle of language and the world, stems openly from their multiform and polysemic construction.

For beyond the compositional links between the art of music and the art of the novel explored in the essay, beyond the esthetic testaments of artists such as Stravinski, Kafka, Janacek, Gombrowicz, Beckett, Hemingway, Fuentes, Sollers or Rushdie, Kundera reveals a much larger betrayal.

Her effort not to leave him stunned was not entirely successful, because her backside was as esthetic as her frontside, even fully clothed, but then she rounded a turn and was out of sight.

And wondered, a trifle guiltily, whether he would have felt the same if Cirl had not been a physically esthetic, magnetically attractive, socially winsome young female.