esthete


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one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

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Nor can it be seriously maintained that this moral historian is anything like a practicing esthete. A little unenergetic in his youth, perhaps, but sister Elizabeth was there to insist that her brother was "never idle." And the literary examples suggest that the lifelong and single-minded pursuit of "The Beautiful" may not constitute a warrantable calling.
Le decalage entre la position du sujet decrit et celle occupee par celui qu'il observe lui-meme ("un gros monsieur qui se pavane") peut rappeler le panorama social deploye par Rimbaud dans le texte "A la musique": mais la ou le poeme rimbaldien manifestait explicitement son adhesion au jugement satirique du locuteur contre la bourgeoisie carolopolitaine, les auteurs qui se cachent derriere Mitrophane Crapoussin se moquent non seulement de la figure du bourgeois, mais encore de celle du client de cafe, presente comme une caricature de l'esthete decadent a la Des Esseintes (c'est ce que mettent en place les deux premiers quatrains, ou le raffinement du sujet decrit est pousse a son comble et jure avec le cafe dans lequel il est exhibe).
James McLennan's Triquet, the effete esthete who entertains the guests with a hammy recitation of his doggerel in Act II, was an audience hit and certainly provided the comic relief the opera prescribes at that point in its downhill slide towards death and despair.
The epitome of the esthete is the seducer whose diary is recorded at the end of Either/Or.
Most of the time the transferring cost from national to regional budget, bringing stability to divided region and addressing demand for local autonomy drive the reform rather than educational consideration per esthete is an expectation that these changes may have some impact on the quality of learning (Naidoo, 2005).
It is also his esthete Dupin who first displays the same method in the service of crime detection.
Known by her clients as a "beauty junkie," she is a passionate esthete with an innate understanding of how the notion of beauty translates from culture to culture.
But this is the Last Judgment as seen through the eyes of a fastidious esthete frightened by the possibility of pollution by the poor and deformed of his race-a last judgment on the Italy Croce described.
As an esthete and a lover of a particular country, I am happy to teach in Italy.
(61) By 1904, disgruntled by the lack of response to his scenic and directorial ideas in England, and encouraged by German esthete and critic Count Harry Kessler, Craig left for Germany in search of theatrical affirmation and work.
Borges?, Mario Bunge, Lucien Goldman, Claude Levi-Strauss, Pierre Clastres, etc.) se dessine le portrait d'un theoricien rigoureux et stimulant, mais egalement, celui d'un esthete mu par la beaute de la vie.
Rey's playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of "an autodidact trailer park esthete," a news release says.
Mpiana: esthete incarne on defi d'un destin social?