Sentence examples for aesthetic convictions from inspiring English sources

Was this artist with unrivalled mastery bereft of deep-rooted aesthetic convictions?

Or, some may be tempted to think, about this master's own disconcerting lack of consistency and, perhaps, of any deeply held aesthetic convictions.

But Mr. Piano has managed to find that magical and elusive balance between respecting a great work and adhering to one's own aesthetic convictions.

On the other hand, whether because of aesthetic convictions, prudery or politics, the modern art worlds of Europe and America have not appreciated the idea of art made for sexual arousal.

The beauty of "Thanksgiving," however, comes from its aesthetic conviction — its careful accumulation of psychological depth, the way it makes the passage of two decades feel like one contiguous scene.

This work, 'Le Festin d'Alkan', encapsulates my aesthetic conviction that free composition, free transcription and free variation (the forms of my three movements in order of performance) are all essentially the same thing.

Of course being au courant with contemporary fashion is not the same as having strong convictions, aesthetic or otherwise.

The painter John Currin, who has been commercially successful and who also has phenomenal skills and technique may have used pornography as his subject matter out of heartfelt aesthetic and personal convictions.

Under the circumstances, according to Weber, a modern individual tends to act only on one's own aesthetic impulse and arbitrary convictions that cannot be communicated in the eventuality; the majority of those who cannot even act on their convictions, or the "last men who invented happiness" à la Nietzsche, lead the life of a "cog in a machine".

Mark Sagoff has observed that environmental policy "is most characterized by the opposition between instrumental values and aesthetic and moral judgments and convictions" (Sagoff 2004: 20).

At the same time, there is integrity to her artifice, a conviction behind her aesthetic that isn't merely satirical.