The $50,000 went to Ms. Rebeck, who will retain rights to the 110-minute play after the production here and expressed hope that "O Beautiful" would interest regional theaters and especially schools.
But while he argues that the beautiful necessarily interests us, Herder also insists that the beautiful does not appeal to self-interest or self-love: the pleasure and interest in the genuinely beautiful as well as the agreeable and good is universal, not personal or idiosyncratic.
As against the utilitarians he showed that the beautiful pleases "without interest" (i.e., utilitarian interest); against the intellectualists, that it pleases "without concepts"; and further, against both, that it has "the form of purposiveness" without "representation of a purpose"; and, against the hedonists, that it is "the object of a universal pleasure".
Raf Simons certainly announced an interest in beautiful, rather than conceptual, clothes at his Dior couture debut last July.
Right now, Gerry was about to attempt the rescue of Skuse's love interest, a beautiful blond whore named Dora Levigne.
Sometimes in these books with realistic themes and difficult families, the main character is described as confident and beautiful, with a love interest and a dozen friends.
Her sculptures, installations and organic drawings are beautiful and hold your interest.
She's wholesome and well rounded, has a lot of interests, is beautiful, fit, passionate and loves to perform".
(A note about the word "beautiful": Munro isn't interested in standard literary aesthetics. She doesn't traffic in the artful, the lyrical or the euphonious. When she savages your heart, it's with language almost ostentatious in its refusal to be pretty).
