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Aesthetically   /ɛsθˈɛtɪkli/   Listen
Aesthetically

adverb
1.
In a tasteful way.  Synonym: esthetically.






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"Aesthetically" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have one, must not be remote. Beaumarchais has seized their full value, and the effects of his "Figaro" spring pre-eminently from this. Whereas such good-humored roguish and half-knavish pranks are practised with personal risk for noble ends, the situations which arise from them are aesthetically and morally considered of the greatest value for the theatre; as, for instance, the opera of "The Water-Carrier" treats perhaps the happiest subject which we have ever yet ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend. I speak now from the aesthetic and artistic point of view when I say that life with us is dull; aesthetically and artistically, very ...
— Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) • Edwin A. Abbott

... that in Boston there is any real sympathy with the artistic temperament; we tend to make everything a matter of right and wrong. And in Boston one can't live—on ne peut pas vivre, as they say here. I don't mean one can't reside—for a great many people manage that; but one can't live aesthetically—I may almost venture to say, sensuously. This is why I have always been so much drawn to the French, who are so aesthetic, so sensuous. I am so sorry that Theophile Gautier has passed away; I should have liked so much to go and see him, ...
— A Bundle of Letters • Henry James



Words linked to "Aesthetically" :   esthetically, aesthetic



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