Hejinian probably wants us to feel how fleeting and ineffective our capacity for aestheticizing is in relation to the world of fact and disaster. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Both Hitchens's and Wood's reviews seem to me of a piece with Leon Wieseltier's condemnation of Updike for "aestheticizing" the ruined World Trade Center in his depiction of the scene that appeared shortly after the events of 9/11/01. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While I don't doubt there are some cooks with dubious "aestheticizing" goals, most of the cooks I know who work in this vein still very much hew to the idea of cooking as craft, and see what they are doing as an exploration of the boundaries of this craft. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and values in this country is one of the things that's gutted our generation. ❋ Intertribal (2010)
Mr. Abbott's essay touches on many of the issues raised by this kind of photojournalism questions of trust and exploitation, of aestheticizing violence and poverty, of viewer passivity in the face of too much tragedy in too many places. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jameson's political (rather than phonemic) reading of the hero's latter-day Romanticism in Lord Jim and its aestheticizing — and anestheticizing — effect. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It would appear that those intricacies and those gifts need to be salvaged from the mythologizing and aestheticizing glorifications, from populist fantasies born of forty years of liberal frustration. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ware's strip says, "I think aestheticizing the sense of taste is a classist, morally, indefensible notion, a function of privilege rather than of necessity, especially when it comes at such expense ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The photographer has a rationale for aestheticizing this devastation: that's a way to gain access. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In his recent book, Patriotism and Other Mistakes, George Kateb strongly warns against aestheticizing religion, which so often leads, he submits, into the dangers and horrors of an aestheticized politics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet by aestheticizing the act of “discovery,” Pratt notes, such a non-event could become a spectacle of imperial power. ❋ Unknown (2008)
According to some, the presence of otherworldly beings changed the nature of their gaze, aestheticizing their view of the city. ❋ Coetzee, J.M. (2008)
I've never thought that aestheticizing the sleaze out of sleaze was a worthwhile endeavour. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
This critique from a trusted friend had a sobering effect, triggering Buber's turn from an aestheticizing social mysticism to the philosophy of dialogue. 1916 was also the year Martin, Paula, and their two children left the big city and moved to the small town of Heppenheim, near Frankfurt on the Main where, since 1904, Buber had been employed as an editor. ❋ Zank, Michael (2007)
What stops us from aestheticizing and historicizing, from examining both the work and the culture it's part of, both the words-as-artifacts and the work as the production of a particular person? ❋ Unknown (2005)
Yet at the same time she wants that concern with aestheticizing to pervade the entire reflection so that we find ourselves strangely empowered by this particular overall attitude toward our own contingency and impotence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I don't know if Tarantino loves violence or if he is so repelled and frightened by it that the only way he can deal with it is by fetishizing and aestheticizing it. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The vacuousness of Mendelsohn's aestheticizing is manifest in the weight he gives to the loyal Freudian Steven Marcus's pronouncement, more than a quarter-century ago, that the "Dora" case history constitutes "a great work of literature." ❋ Rosenfield, Israel (2000)
