aesthetic

In a sentence

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

• The choice to shoot everything on expired film was aesthetic rather than practical, and the muddy greens prove it.

  Photography

• The louvres serve no structural purpose; they are an aesthetic decision that gives the flat facade a rhythm.

  Architecture

• Shooting the whole film in one long take was an aesthetic gamble that made the hotel feel genuinely inescapable.

  Movies

• Kant argued that an aesthetic judgment claims universal agreement even though it rests on nothing but a private feeling.

  Philosophy

• Plating is an aesthetic choice: the sauce dragged across the plate feeds nobody but sets up the first bite.

  Cooking

• The phone's rounded corners were an aesthetic decision, and engineers spent months making the screen follow them exactly.

  Technology

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More Academic words

• implicate
• allocate
• abstraction
• reconstruct
• maximise
• retention
• refine
• qualitative
• plausible
• precede
• minimized
• duration