Sentence examples for ordinary aesthetic from inspiring English sources

Both are firmly rooted in ordinary aesthetic thought.

Susan Sontag, in her seminal essay "Notes on Camp" wrote that "camp turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment.

The findings in this study shed light on complex but ordinary processes of aesthetic appreciation.

Thus there are two separate ways in which the content of experience is provided: one in ordinary perception, the other in aesthetic experience.

But there was also an attempt to construct a narrative in which advocates of strong environmental protection were either extremists — "eco-Nazis," according to Rush Limbaugh — or effete liberal snobs trying to impose their aesthetic preferences on ordinary Americans.

Such assaults began almost as soon as the avant-garde was discredited, as Soviet planners fell into lockstep with Stalin's aesthetic preferences and ordinary citizens turned the clock backward.

A brochure quotes The Daily News calling the production "arresting and dignified"; it also quotes The New York Journal, which described the show as "pretentious tommyrot, aesthetic whoopla and ordinary bunk".

In its stringent suppression of auteurism -- all signatories to the vow of chastity "swear to refrain from creating a 'work' " -- dogmatism, at least as applied by Mr. Kragh-Jacobsen, derives impressive aesthetic authority from ordinary sights and sounds.

To distinguish between aesthetic values of ordinary experience (connected with subject-matter) and aesthetic values of art, as Fry wished, is impossible.

"Lost" is an affectionate look at the bad old days with the same aesthetic point: namely, that ordinary gestures (folding arms, holding a hand to hip) are not abstract and are never robbed of a narrative tinge.

Once again it is useful to begin from Kant, who distinguished two uses of the imagination: the first in ordinary thought and perception, the second in aesthetic experience.