Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reporter insisted that he had no such purpose, but as this was his first interview, and as all the other newspapers had asked the same question, he thought it was only the correct thing. This pacified the poet, and he said that AEstheticism is the cultivation of the AEsthetic, adding, "I trust this is clear...
"Patience Parties" are the latest, at which each guest is expected to wear an aesthetic costume.
But even the continual presence of beauty cannot make its power felt in the sordid soul. The attraction that influences yonder natives is not aesthetic truth, but vulgar gossip.
"Is he aesthetic?" murmured Miss Raphael, a languishing Vassar Soph.
Now it happened that in the two seats directly in front of ours there were two as blooming maidens as ever appealed to the aesthetic nature of an appreciative undergraduate. In a word, they were girls not to be sneezed at; but rather to be smiled at, if occasion allowed...