Sentence examples for basis of aesthetic from inspiring English sources

Such places would be selected mainly on the basis of aesthetic, historical, scientific, or social significance.

She said the college would select companies for East River Studios on the basis of aesthetic judgments and business potential.

And contrary to those of us who think that the case can be made with logic, on the basis of aesthetic principles, that way lies pedantry and narrowness, because the essence of artistic genius is to make things new — to outleap in a single bound and render obsolete the principles of those who are only able to foresee advances stepwise.

It is this liveliness rather than probative clarity which is the basis of aesthetic experience.

But if Hutcheson is right about the basis of aesthetic judgment how does disagreement arise?

The surface of the face is the most visible area that clinicians and lay people appreciate and often forms the basis of aesthetic judgments.

African fiction is packaged and circulated, bought and sold not on the basis of its aesthetic value but of its thematic preoccupation.

On the basis of that aesthetic Bryce founded the MusicNOW festival in Cincinnati in 2006 and helped program the Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tenn., in 2010.

In 1995, it began to commission original projects for the Web, inviting artists, from the architects Diller + Scofidio to the video artist Tony Oursler, on the basis of their aesthetic and conceptual vision for the medium rather than their technological savvy.

Leading architects here and abroad often make a point of praising his contributions in their field, even though what he has done, in a sense, has been to challenge the whole basis of their aesthetic, pointing out that the supposedly modern and functional Bauhaus-derived architecture of our time is only superficially functional and not modern at all.

"You can never find any place else all the things you see here in one place at one time," said Mr. Viale, who shops for rocks on the basis of their aesthetic value, a practice less common than it might seem.