Aestheticizes

This echoes Patrick Leray's highly recommended Guernica Mag article: "So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins." ❋ Helene Bienvenu (2011)

  But there's no reasoning with a woman who self-aestheticizes — if that's a word — in the hope that it will make her stand out in the crowded field of disturbed young poetesses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Halperin's version of Greek alterity — they invert our models of inversion — indicates that alterity can disfigure the messiness of sexuality even when it aestheticizes it, makes it symmetrical. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yet Kant finally aestheticizes Leibniz, claiming that he meant only to express a view of the world that is true in its own way. ❋ Wilson, Catherine (2008)

The art of cruelty aestheticizes violence, in not necessarily scrupulous ways. ❋ By LAURA KIPNIS (2011)

Set almost entirely in a Northern Ireland prison, it aestheticizes jail without making it look pretty.

In the massacre the visual style aestheticizes the violence into harmlessness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's hard to know what Barney is thinking, but he seems to view whaling as an honorable tradition, just as he aestheticizes everything that he depicts in Japan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Replicating the scratch-off surface applied to lottery tickets, Baldridge further aestheticizes an already ornate subject and casts human mortality as a merciless game of chance with an inescapable culmination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The review was an evisceration, built on Mr. Wieseltier’s contention that Mr. Amis aestheticizes politics and tragedy for his own narcissistic purposes. ❋ Unknown (2008)