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aesthete

/es-theet or, especially British, ees-/US // ˈɛs θit or, especially British, ˈis- //UK // (ˈiːsθiːt) //

美学家,美术家,审美者,美术师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.
    • : a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, etc., and indifference to practical matters.

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Examples

  • Everyone else seemed like naturally insouciant aesthetes, like they woke up with the knowledge of culture, art, and hipness, whereas everything I knew felt labored and deeply, obsessively limned.

  • The trouble was that the fight took on a life of its own, until the warrior in Hilton nearly crushed the aesthete.

  • He makes people who I call the aesthete—who have a very specific aesthetic point of view.

  • Edith was a fascinating character, at once a strict fundamentalist and a sophisticated, warm-hearted aesthete.

  • The aesthete who had so touched him with his impassioned voice, was going to say the saving word.

  • To everyone, except perhaps here and there an occasional aesthete, the commonest sense of the word is unaesthetic.

  • We see that the man whose success is merely personal—the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete—is incurably vulgar.

  • The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist—or religious aesthete, which is it?

  • But Becky Sharp's eyes also were green, and the green of the aesthete does not suggest innocence.