esthete

Above all, as we might think to point out the differences, Poe was--in the highest possible sense--an esthete: his religion, there from the first in "Al Aaraaf," was a religion of Beauty, from the worship of which his Angelo falls painfully away; and it was there at the end, with the "Poetic Principle," written to remind a more and more distracted world that an all-but-unquenchable instinct for some supernal beauty is our principal intimation of immortality.

(1.) Jared Becker is convinced that this 'politics of estheticism'--to use Thomas Mann's term--offers the 'esthete as a political arbiter', and offers the poet's 'beauties'--in this case nationalism and imperialism--as 'the substance of the nation's politics, overriding the materialist analyses of either socialist or capitalist polities'.

Top restaurants serve them with an esthete's reverence, and your palate thanks them.

According to the annals of espionage, Fidrmuc was an esthete who was paid for his services with art objects.

Wayne Lewis travels as a global polymorphous esthete. The global, Ngug!

Proust est avant tout esthete: << Ce sont des ceuvres d'art, les choses magnifiques, qui sont chargees de nous donner les impressions familieres de la vie >>, dit le narrateur de la Recherche.

Il y a longtemps que notre esthete n'a pas inscrit un but de folie.

That Beard did not become some kind of conservative Pre-Raphaelite esthete ever pining for the vanished certainties of medieval Christendom probably owes more to Hobson than to any other single thinker.

Lecter, who, as his psychiatrist Bedelia DuMaurier/Gillian Anderson observes, is at all times wearing "a well-tailored person suit," appears as his radical opposite: a sophisticated esthete whose experience of the world is always mediated by the artifice which dissimulates his savage impulses.

Quelque part entre l'albatros baudelairien et le "rossignol de la boue sans alies" de Corbiere, Plowert s'inscrit a merveille dans la posture decadente archetypale: se presentant comme un esthete de seconde zone que son originalite et son imprevisibilite rendent plus rebutant qu'attirant, il est la personne de papier toute designee pour endosser la responsabilite d'une reflexion sur le lexique symboliste.