Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To depict in an idealized or artistic manner.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
aestheticise .
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Examples
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If we don't "aestheticize" art -- that is, apprehend it on its own terms as art -- we've failed to recognize it at all.
Saying Something 2010
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Heaven forbid that we "aestheticize" an ostensible work of art!
Saying Something 2010
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Heroism is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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"Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers, the balm we use to soothe the suffering of the families and friends impacted - both emotionally and financially -- and left behind.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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"Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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"Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers, the balm we use to soothe the suffering of the families and friends impacted - both emotionally and financially -- and left behind.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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"Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers, the balm we use to soothe the suffering of the families and friends impacted - both emotionally and financially -- and left behind.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite : Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Media depictions are often challenged, sometimes rightly so, for glamorizing suffering, lending comfort to those who aestheticize the pain of others rather than persuading them to extend their hands in hope of alleviating it.
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The opening sequence, which contains the first of many shocks, suggests that Mr. Garrone will aestheticize his gritty subject.
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The word "seeing," in all its ambiguity, is split between perceptual and cognitive, literal and figurative, meanings, and only our own interpretation can unify and hence aestheticize it.
Seeing Is Reading 2005
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