Sentence examples for aesthetic violence from inspiring English sources

What distinguishes aesthetic violence is its power to open up the tragic depths of feeling it represents.

They range from less noteworthy qualities such as the boring, the monotonous, the uninspiring, the banal, and the dull to "aesthetic violence," "aesthetic pain," "aesthetic poisoning," or "aesthetic assault," such as the hideous, the offensive, the repulsive, and the vulgar (Mandoki 2007).

"The postcard, even — especially — when it pretends to mirror the exotic, is nothing but one of the forms of the aesthetic justification of colonial violence".

Delacroix is the last of the romantics and the first of the moderns: a sensual, even depraved connoisseur of sex and violence as aesthetic themes whose visions of harems, mass suicides, massacres and struggles with angels are painted with infinite sensitivity to colour.

Somehow, in the sprawl of all the novel's violence and aesthetic ransackings and drug use and war crimes, the sense that Haute Surveillance is more real than it would like to let on seems to accumulate.

The new holiday movies also have their reasons for violence, and varied aesthetic approaches.

The counter argument was, in essence, twofold: that cinema could hardly be expected to be insulated from a world of pervasive war, criminality and social disturbance; and that the exploration of violence was an aesthetic opportunity for ambitious filmmakers.

"Hugo," for all its historical archeology, is entirely different; Scorsese's past is one in which geniuses can be ruined and forgotten, in which families are precarious and orphans are relentlessly pursued, in which the aesthetic graces conceal indifference and violence along with lost modes of artistic genius.

ISIS has been built on a fascist taste for violence, and an aesthetic of terror that feeds on people's pain.

In general, participants reported low to moderate crime, violence, walkability, and aesthetic environments.

It is all about stylized mayhem, the celebration of violence for its own aesthetic quality.