Sentence examples for aesthetic poses from inspiring English sources

Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

Is her fascination with the paranormal a study of mass psychology, an aesthetic pose, or a personal spiritual vocation?

As Adam and Eve motor through a desolate Detroit, and savor its picturesque melancholy, just as eighteenth-century noblemen, on the Grand Tour, used to savor classical ruins, does their aesthetic pose not hide a moral indifference?

From the American, he learned the insider-outsider game (being very Irish among the English when it paid him to be) and the virtues of the cheap paradox, and borrowed almost all the trappings of the aesthetic pose.

Without the presence of Benny, CeeJay and Red, Har'el's film might have risked becoming poverty tourism; an aesthetic pose, marvelling at the beauty of the junkyard or the sight of Main Street run to seed.

But Wilde also delighted in affecting an aesthetic pose; this, combined with rooms at Oxford decorated with objets d'art, resulted in his famous remark, "Oh, would that I could live up to my blue china!" In the early 1880s, when Aestheticism was the rage and despair of literary London, Wilde established himself in social and artistic circles by his wit and flamboyance.

The aesthetic dilemmas posed by this literature are still to be faced and resolved.

These intellectual puzzles, full of the most extravagant refinements, are the work of a mind enthralled by the aesthetic mysteries posed by old paintings ("The Flanders Panel"), rare manuscripts ("The Club Dumas"), arcane arts ("The Fencing Master") and religious architecture ("The Seville Communion").

Though the aesthetic conflict it poses between a ballet couple and a modern-dance couple who swap partners was antiquated in 1988, the piece is skillfully made.

Marxist aesthetes, or aesthetic Marxists, know how to pose for Architectural Digest, however unhappily in love or perennially out of work.

Though his subject matter stayed the same, the hyperrealistic aesthetic and nuanced posing made each sculpture unique.