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noun

aesthete

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

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Six example sentences with aesthete, each labelled with its topic.

  • A well-known aesthete of the period, he refused to hang any painting in a room with the wrong light.

    Art

  • The novel's aesthete keeps a notebook of sunsets and considers a badly chosen curtain color a personal injury.

    Literature

  • Every aesthete at the workshop spent an hour arguing about the exact shade of gray in a winter sky.

    Photography

  • The client was an aesthete who rejected three kitchen designs because the tile grout was the wrong shade of grey.

    Architecture

  • A confirmed aesthete, the conductor would stop a rehearsal over one oboe note he found merely adequate.

    Music

  • The director is an aesthete who reshot the dinner scene four times to get the candlelight exactly right.

    Movies

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