aestheticized

Walter Benjamin made a once famous claim that the Nazis had 'aestheticized' politics.

The Fire Next Time Bayley, John 1990

As with the art of many utopian dictatorships, the signage is largely academic and excessively idealized and antiseptic--as aestheticized views of life inevitably must be.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

In his fictionalized—and aestheticized—version, Martin Sheen plays Kit, the psychopathic killer, and Sissy Spacek is Holly, his 15-year-old girlfriend, who narrates flatly yet hypnotically.

A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011

Perhaps Hoffmann's vision of a fully aestheticized domain was doomed from the start.

An Enchanted House Becomes a Family's Curse Michael Z. Wise 2012

This particular kind of simple-minded classification is frequently used to dismiss overly aestheticized, formally adventurous fiction as insufficiently engaged with the real world, "merely literary," and it isn't any less obnoxious here because Massie finds the winds of the world blowing predominantly toward the past.

Confusion and Turbulence 2010

As with the art of many utopian dictatorships, the signage is largely academic and excessively idealized and antiseptic--as aestheticized views of life inevitably must be.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

The goal was to make a lighter, more aestheticized version of the open-face sandwich, and the final product is something like a high-rise canapé.

The Danish Sandwich, Reloaded J. S. Marcus 2011

This particular kind of simple-minded classification is frequently used to dismiss overly aestheticized, formally adventurous fiction as insufficiently engaged with the real world, "merely literary," and it isn't any less obnoxious here because Massie finds the winds of the world blowing predominantly toward the past.

The Reading Experience 2010

That hotel, Casa Palopo, presents an aestheticized version of Guatemala.

Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010

This particular kind of simple-minded classification is frequently used to dismiss overly aestheticized, formally adventurous fiction as insufficiently engaged with the real world, "merely literary," and it isn't any less obnoxious here because Massie finds the winds of the world blowing predominantly toward the past.

May 2010 2010