Set mostly on a mining ship called the Nostromo, it had a grunge aesthetic, a run-down quality that muddled our view of the action.
Whereas in tennis, any person looking on can appreciate the athletic and aesthetic value of a running Federer pass or a Steffi Graf forehand, no one would watch badminton, witness a fabulous smash defence or disguised cross-court drop, and gasp.
The rest of the film sticks to the same aesthetic: all running and crunching, every line of dialogue orchestrated to within an inch of its life.
Frankly, I feel that too many games just rely on a different take on the whole meat circus aesthetic and run with that.
There wasn't a consistent aesthetic thread running through the show.
But even aesthetic ecstasy should run into a wall at some point.
Cyndi Lauper, the young girl from Queens, embodied a different kind of feminine aesthetic that ran counter to the raw sensuality and edginess of her contemporaries like Madonna or veteran rockers Joan Jett and Pat Benatar.
I'm a man in his late 40s whose aesthetic taste runs to the detailed, the dank, the depressing.
Writing in The New York Review of Books in 1975, Ms. Sontag said there was a common "aesthetic" running through what she called Ms. Riefenstahl's "triptych of fascist visuals" -- her early work as an actress in Arnold Fanck's "mountain films," her two principal documentaries and her photographs of the Nuba.
But, the author writes, when he let his perfectionist aesthetic run unchecked at Next, the computer company he founded after leaving Apple, he failed monumentally, building a powerful $6,500 machine that many admired but few bought.
Ghesquiere doesn't do simple retro collections but on a model with short hair and chunky brogues, it was a nod to the mod/punk/grunge line of heritage, the anti-pretty aesthetic that runs through the fashion decades.
