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The Chairman was too much of an aesthete for that.

I didn't want to start him up on some British aesthete.

Or perhaps he'd simply lost interest in the diversions of aesthetes.

I was an aesthete who used the flesh and blood of the world to make Beauty.

He's dead, and so is that trembling aesthete, his friend.

The term is often used in contrast to the less athletic "aesthetes".

The young aesthete, rigorous in his critique of the world as he found it.

These two artist- aesthetes have been living in the 19th century for almost 20 years.

Every day, parents must assemble meals for their hungry aesthetes.

She decided the woman was an aesthete, a connoisseur of feelings and images.

- And these people are supposed to be decadent aesthetes?

For aesthetes who prefer a computer with a more elegant look, there are a couple of nice choices.

It sounds as if you were a teenage aesthete.

He is an aesthete, a person who holds a dear appreciation of art and beauty.

He was a tall and thin guy with black hair and the face of an aesthete.

The series offers itself as a summer antidote for the overheated aesthete.

It's certainly equally as visible and even more vilified by aesthetes (perhaps with good reason).

As a teenage aesthete I cared nothing about his scandalous reputation.

But he was too much an aesthete, his eye too fascinated with extremes.

"She's a romantic, an aesthete, though sometimes in a morbid way.

Thank God he was a Celt, an artist and an aesthete!

This bias against morality among the modern aesthetes is nothing very much paraded.

But others - especially the younger generation of composers, students and aesthetes - were highly enthusiastic.

What firewood aesthetes want to know is, Does it crackle or hiss?

She added, seizing on the real message of the show: "It's hard to be an aesthete today.

This esthete of everyday life has invented too much to stop now.

"But I can see that the esthete in you all has captured your attention.

Close, a child esthete, was already deep into art, finding inspiration in magazines.

For a writer and esthete who defined himself against society's conventions, exile was simply death.

But Dario, bohemian esthete though he was, never cut himself off from the world around him.

The professional esthete responded to these matters tangentially, if at all.

This was the culture of the private scholar and esthete, or of the monk.

His travels, especially those to the Mediterranean area, provided much inspiration to the composer and esthete.

So I'll never be an esthete; I lack judgment in matters of beauty.

One manipulative esthete in the play may discover that trying to shape the lives of others can backfire.

If you are going to be popular, there is no way of appealing to the esthete, the educated eye, the graduate palate.

Gerald was an esthete from his childhood forward.

A high-minded esthete, he disapproved of mingling art with politics and drugs.

A wine esthete pokes his sensitive beak into a glass of Champagne.

Quite clearly, this is not the collection of a pure scholar, or of a detached esthete.

Because as you can see, I'm no Hollywood longhair or some effete esthete.

"Oh Mommy," the young esthete said in rapture.

His story blends the passions of an esthete with the tactics of an investment strategist.

But this is no mere esthete.

Harold, a flamboyant esthete, was sent off to Eton and Oxford.

Drop all stereotypes of Eliot the touchy esthete."

But can the self-deceptions of an obsessed esthete wipe out the fact of her greatness as an artist?

His soft-spoken manner, rimless glasses and slim frame suggest an esthete rather than a power broker.

He is a sensitive esthete, but his quest for peace and beauty is often frustrated by the imperfections of this world.

But he was not an esthete, and it seems now that he was not even an idealist.