"In some things we consider that as beautiful which elsewhere would lack beauty".
Sometimes, however, ideas and feelings are at war with each other and then an object pleases and at the same time does not: from one perspective it is beautiful, while from another it lacks beauty" (AT, 392).
Hume's "Principles of Morals" lacks beauty, passion, and drama.
This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty.
Despite Nemes's obstinate, bold, and original cinematographic premise, "Son of Saul" — unlike "Shoah" — lacks beauty.
Once he found his Dorian, he allowed himself to be annihilated by him, feeling, absurdly, that Bosie had everything that he lacked: beauty, high birth, sexual charisma.
It lacks beauty, dazzling social observations or a single useful telephone number; nevertheless, its ancestors would be proud, as Grigson's passion for British food and Bryson's relaxed, self-deprecating observations indirectly inform every page.
That's not to say that the show lacks beauty or humor: witness a trio of smeary flower paintings by Gerhard Richter, or Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture of himself in a Beuysian felt suit, dangling forlornly from a coatrack.
Yet even the loveliest scenery en route will not be enough if the end point lacks beauty.
Guyer argues that while there is displeasure in the ugly it always involves an interest; Ginsborg allows also for disinterested judgments of ugliness, but denies that these involve a characteristic feeling of displeasure; rather, we judge that something is ugly if it lacks beauty in a context where beauty is expected.
