The phrase "merely aesthetic" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is primarily concerned with appearance or beauty, rather than function or practicality. Example: The designer's focus was on creating a chair that was not only functional, but also had a strong aesthetic appeal. However, some critics argued that the chair was merely aesthetic and lacked practicality.
Nor is the objection to such devices merely aesthetic.
If the problem were merely aesthetic, Mr. Hall said, he might not make such a fuss.
So the list will not include affronts that are merely aesthetic.
So was his affinity for German Romanticism merely aesthetic or was there something more ideological at play?
But Dix would readily uglify any image rather than let it escape his pugnacious temperament into merely aesthetic avenues.
This art, he declared, was merely "aesthetic", and, unlike suprematism, never original or an end in itself.
This is a book whose political dimensions transcend the "merely" aesthetic--though there is ample linguistic experimentation in evidence here--and extend, indeed, to temporal domestic politics and life-or-death questions of ethical and moral commitment.
For Stillman, style is a matter of submitting gracefully to the imperatives of society in order to achieve one's personal goals and fulfill one's own will nonetheless a superficial submission that masks will with beauty, a mode of irony that's not merely logical (Socratic style) but aesthetic.
For Stillman, style is a matter of submitting gracefully to the imperatives of society in order to achieve one's personal goals and fulfill one's own will nonetheless — a superficial submission that masks will with beauty, a mode of irony that's not merely logical (Socratic style) but aesthetic.
Doing so is not merely an aesthetic desideratum, but instead necessary if the theory is to be applied to the cosmos as a whole, as in quantum gravity.
"This isn't merely an aesthetic or environmental loss, but has been ecologically disastrous with an irreplaceable loss of biodiversity," he says.
