Mr. Allen has always made a point of defining his characters in esthetic and intellectual terms as well as dramatic ones.

Fortunately, that is the only complaint, unless you are like me and object to the doors on esthetic terms.

Only the second night's installment succeeds on esthetic terms.

On recordings, music is portable, easy to separate from its original context and ready to be appreciated on esthetic rather than doctrinal terms.

It became an art-music, isolated and defensive if perhaps more challenging on strictly esthetic terms.

In purely esthetic terms, the material often looks thin, dispersed and uneven.

The pictures are seductive; the issue becomes cast in esthetic terms.

Judging Lilith Fair on esthetic terms, however, demands exploring what unites its participants beyond gender.

The main public plaza is dark and practically invisible - in esthetic terms inaccessible and uninviting.