Sentence examples for aesthetic passion from inspiring English sources

It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.

Bertolucci's sly, sleek images distill a lifetime of aesthetic passion and exalt the very luxury that they deride.

Of course, there's often much of interest in a movie beside the art of the director (of journalistic or sociological interest if not of aesthetic passion).

Mizoguchi presents the artist's work as the fusion of art and life — and of an aesthetic passion that brought him into conflict with the authorities.

Rossellini realizes his political agenda concerning bourgeois sophisticates whose sensibility is stunted by comfort with a vision of redemption through aesthetic passion and populist experience.

With rare exceptions, Chinese purchasing over the past decade has been a case of buying what is fashionable and expensive rather than collecting out of aesthetic passion and scholarly knowledge.

Preminger the man without aesthetic passions had become a cause of passion in others, an irony that he no doubt enjoyed.

There is also a section called "Connections," in which staff members present distinctive video essays about their aesthetic passions, with allusive titles like "Magic" or "Dark Energy".

Yet these aesthetic passions (and their moral implications) aren't at all a withdrawal from secularism or a hedging of atheism; they're part of the pursuit of an unblinkered, wide-ranging mental life that the absence of religious dogma makes possible.

And it's no surprise that students increasingly don't want to read — to the extent that the rejection of reading implies the rejection of what reading has become in the hands of educators whose mandate is to train students rather than to cultivate their aesthetic passions.

In other words, it is time we knocked on the head the myth of the gentleman thief indulging his aesthetic passions.