Sentence examples for aesthetic imperatives from inspiring English sources

"Keep On Dancin' " details the makings of modern dance music in a tangle of friendships, aesthetic imperatives, business deals and sexual liaisons.

In fact, Christmas is the holiday with this largest overarching theme and set of aesthetic imperatives, complete with a standardized color scheme.

Especially after his Tony for "An American in Paris" (which he directed and choreographed), Wheeldon has become known as a master of so-called story ballets — crossover productions that emphasize narrative and often introduce plot-driven suspense into an art best known for its formative demands and aesthetic imperatives.

This notion of identification becomes, as the book progresses, a central existential and aesthetic imperative.

At the same time, there's clearly an aesthetic imperative here.

Rich and poor make daily choices in spending their money, based on an instinctive aesthetic imperative.

Is fashion fundamentally ageist and sizeist, or is it just that the aesthetic imperative rules no matter what?

Whether it's Hillary Rodham Clinton's hair or a Starbucks coffee shop or a translucent American Express credit card, there's a sweeping aesthetic imperative, to use Virginia Postrel's phrase, roiling everything from politics to grocery chains to financial institutions.

This stream of information may be more than many viewers will care to process, as the director's moral mission to lay out the full saga clashes awkwardly with the aesthetic imperative to keep it tight; a curt, scary scene of an R.A.F.

If the new Lanvin never reached orchestral crescendo, it was not meant to; rather, it moved lyrically along, a felicitous marriage of aesthetic and imperative.

Advocates for roadless wilderness and similar conservation issues have traditionally emphasized the ethical imperatives and aesthetic rewards of promoting environmentalism.