Moldings also offer an esthetic pleasure: the wall can be one color, the crown molding another and the ceiling yet a third.

To her it had been a delicate, an esthetic pleasure.

Works less overtly related to the experiential provide some of the greatest esthetic pleasure.

Nothing about him gave me esthetic pleasure.

While the marvelous objects here give immediate esthetic pleasure, their layers of meaning are more elusive.

His sentimental tragedy now inspires esthetic pleasure instead of profound empathy.

My guess is that most buy in the hope of achieving all of these goals: esthetic pleasure, social status and a sound investment.

And there is an esthetic pleasure in cooking thoughtfully and well.

I can see no purpose other than esthetic pleasure involved in building such complicated structures.

All these are analogous to things that happen in more traditional music, and perceiving them brings a similar esthetic pleasure.