The phrase "a sort of aesthetic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a particular style or quality that is somewhat related to aesthetics but not precisely defined.
Example: "The artist's work embodies a sort of aesthetic that blends traditional techniques with modern themes."
Alternatives: "a kind of aesthetic" or "a type of aesthetic".
I was infuriated at first, but I eventually developed a sort of aesthetic appreciation of their performances.
This lent his latter years a sort of aesthetic shape which he had already attempted to formalise by making Kamila his heir, an effort the Brno courts rejected.
It was a sort of aesthetic stoning, and it came as no surprise when he joined them, and they turned on the audience.
In a sort of aesthetic crisis, he had thought of making films outside France, a crisis that he had been discussing in interviews in late 1966.
But any responding poem must itself conduct an extreme act of balancing, finding a place where it can manoeuvre and function fully as poetry, without crudity or pretension, but avoiding a sort of aesthetic inoculation that can also occur.
"1950S 1960S KINETIC ABSTRACTION" Sculptures and reliefs that move, literally, advanced a frail international style — a sort of aesthetic Esperanto — that stood against New Yorkish hegemony in Europe and South America.
Europeans imposed stubbornly resilient terms and values on Africa — "primitivism," for example, which had to surprise the members of fully functional native societies — and the strip-mining of African forms by European artists, primarily Picasso, compounded the confusion with a sort of aesthetic-feedback loop, making Africanist styling a standard flavor of chic modernity.
As chaotic and beer-soaked as it may seem, the band has set up an enterprise to which any sort of aesthetic judgment will be almost irrelevant.
It may be enough to know that, in theory-drunk circles of the period, any sort of aesthetic appeal could be regarded as a stratagem of "late capitalist" ideology or some other wrinkle of malign social power.
"We try to avoid any sort of aesthetic aspect in our designs," van Rijs told me.
"When we were coming up with the title, we were searching for something that would be compelling to audiences, but we didn't want to impose any sort of aesthetic limitations.
