If Beardsley insists on a lawlike connection between his three thick substantive aesthetic properties (unity, intensity and complexity) and aesthetic value, he can only do so at the cost of conceding anomalousness between the three thick substantive aesthetic properties and nonaesthetic properties.
Partly it is aesthetic: his thick glasses, furrowed brow and scholarly mien seem to lend his charts and graphs instant credibility.
She marries a haute-naif aesthetic of thick lines, blocky color, proto-Cubist mannerism, and collapsed perspective with a visual lexicon of knights errants and dogged explorers, sea monsters and tall ships, architectural ruins and sketchy outlines of uncharted territories.
Mr. Cardona pulls off his own antiquated aesthetic, sporting a thick chevron mustache.
The air was thick with cigarette smoke and aesthetic daring, the heady incense of the avant-garde.
So, for example, Brian Weatherson (2004) has argued that resistance puzzles arise not only for normative concepts (including thick and thin moral concepts, aesthetic judgments, and epistemic evaluations), but also for attributions of mental states, attributions of content, and claims involving constitution or ontological status.
But in 1991 the group turned to the notorious American underground producer Steve Albini to record its third LP, "Sea Monsters," and the gruff Chicagoan added dense layers of serrated noise to the band's sound and a thicker, darker element to its aesthetic.
THE many aesthetic benefits of pregnancy — thick, shiny hair; an enhanced bustline; that glow — are sometimes followed by glaring stretch marks, sagging skin and the onset of acne.
White was an accomplished painter, sent to Virginia, in part, to document the new country, and his thick, almost sinuous lines make an aesthetic virtue of geographic imprecision.
Todd Barket, owner of the menswear boutique Unionmade in the Castro, said much of the beard craze of the past five years could be credited to the bear community, a subculture of gay men who emerged in the 1970s sporting heavy facial hair, thick bodies and a general burly aesthetic as a counterpoint to the more manicured mainstream gay "twink" look.
