0 a person who understands and enjoys beauty:
The decadence and detachment of the aesthetes was but the result of high capitalism and the necessary alienation of the worker from his task.
He understood little of the art of government at which he remained an aesthete rather than a connoisseur despite a quarter century of rule.
The physics rather than the metaphysics of being attract the aesthete.
As these aesthetes saw it, to live an aesthetic life in a practical sense demanded commitments to organized movements.
That aesthete's store of beauty does not, however, prevent her from engaging with the collective concerns of the comrades.
In their efforts to improve the sensory experiences of the poor, missionary aesthetes subscribed to a liberatory aesthetic rather than a decadent one.
The aesthetes in us wanted a new cover design and colour to signal beyond all shadow of doubt the start of a new editorial era.
For him, an aesthete, there is nothing in life that could hold him.
