Sentences with phrase «many of the aesthetic»

For small businesses that rely on a certain level of aesthetic elegance, less cluttering cable handrails are recommended.

It was his application of calligraphy's design and visual tenets to the then - clunky world of computers — a pre-Macintosh world in dire need of aesthetic principles — that yielded the creative magic.

But Jobs skillfully applied calligraphy's design and visual tenets to the then - clunky world of computers — a pre-Macintosh world in dire need of aesthetic principles.

Those who saw the black - and - white pictures were more likely to categorize the shoes based on function — like high heels versus sneakers — instead of aesthetic design — like plain versus leopard - printed shoes.

Of the two products, I preferred the Charge HR more — not just from the standpoint of price, but also of aesthetic appeal.

At first glance, its checkered pattern looks to be part of the aesthetic, but it's there for a purpose.

The present experiments were aimed primarily at establishing the nature of aesthetic preferences for color pairs and their relations to harmony, similarity, and figural preference of color pairs.

Kierkegaard shares with Kant the assumption that being moral inevitably involves a struggle to thwart the impulses of human nature, which by definition must tug the agent in the direction of aesthetic indulgence — and where does ethics derive the authority to make me go against my feelings?

In other words, Christian eschatology must be painted like creation in «the colors of aesthetic categories.»

Gregory anticipates Kierkegaard's description of certain types of aesthetic nonchoosers who are habitually resistant to deciding anything.43

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

As a very simple illustration in human communities, it is obvious that athletic teams strive to develop this kind of aesthetic relation of mutual support among their members.

But the experience of metaphysical knowledge, of self - consciousness and self - awareness, of moral conscience, of liberty, or of aesthetic and religious experience — these must be analyzed through philosophical reflection, while theology seeks to clarify the ultimate meaning of the Creator's designs.

It is the «adjustment of aesthetic emphasis in obedience to an ideal of harmony» (PR 102 / 155).

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

He believes that aesthetic education is needed to «draw out habits of aesthetic apprehension» (SMW 199).

Hartshorne can only answer in terms of aesthetic evil, that is, under a different umbrella.

The life of the mind, deprived of the aesthetic endeavor, remains leaden and remote.

It has been noted in the cybernetic analysis of music that this orchestrated balance between pattern and spontaneity offers «the highest degree of aesthetic value attainable» (CO 203).

I will state dogmatically: no one has ever succeeded in making sense out of the idea of an aesthetic value so great that all possible beauty is already in it.

The best definition of aesthetic value is that it is intrinsic value.

To make these practices communicative in and through specific cultural contexts, those of us who teach ministers to become «servants of the Word» have encouraged them to become aware of aesthetic conventions and put them into practice in public communication.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The second stage is governed by the private ideal, gradually shaped in the process itself; whereby the many feelings, derivatively felt as alien, are transformed into a unity of aesthetic appreciation immediately felt as private.

Then there are grades of aesthetic beauty which constitute the ideals of different schools and different periods of art.

Each and every actual entity is a concrescence of given elements under the aegis of an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value, i.e., toward the emergence of Beauty.

Much later, as a graduate student at Northwestern University's School of Speech, I began to develop some tools for investigating intersections between language and action, angling toward such forms of aesthetic expression as oral reading, acting and directing in the theatre, and storytelling.

This force has narrowed the spectrum of aesthetic and political diversity as effectively as outright authoritarian censorship.

The form of the harmony is grasped in a kind of aesthetic judgment, although «aesthetic» should not be taken to refer exclusively to art or to imply that the value is actually appropriate to the situation.

And I certainly would not underestimate the idea of an aesthetic appeal.

The loss of the aesthetic sensibility in the Church has weakened its ability to make its call heard in the world.

Consequently, the «sense of external reality — that is to say, the sense of being one actuality in a world of actualities — is the gift of aesthetic significance.

I refer also to the human experience of aesthetic appreciation, along with our capacity for evaluating, enjoying, suffering, and in other ways becoming sensitively aware of what is both within us and around us.

These two character types represent the extreme, pathological forms of the aesthetic and ethical spheres of existence.

It seeks to be a reminder that for Whitehead all propositional estimates of aesthetic worth, while they do lend important handles, are merely provisional, merely the intellect's feeble effort to account for what is unaccountable.

They have so underemphasized the empirical way, which concentrates on the physical response to the past, that the power of aesthetic experience has been neglected.

The bigger the review, the more likely it is to plant itself firmly on the level of aesthetic and political criticism — ignoring, mocking, or (worse) merely «noting» an album's religious content.

Mitt might appear to us as the rare rich guy who might — out of mega-frugality and Mormon lack of aesthetic sense (from which Huntsman pretentiously exempts himself)-- occasionally eat at Denny's.

They have so emphasized the rationalistic way, which concentrates on the intellectual organization of the past, that the meaning of aesthetic experience has been exaggerated.

Charles Hartshorne has devoted much trained attention to bird song and argues that song requires «something like an aesthetic sense in the animal,» though it may be more a matter of aesthetic feeling rather than aesthetic thought (BS 2, 12).

It is just this empirical sense of the aesthetic which William Carlos Williams had, particularly in his most conscious moments of rebellion from the cognitive and academic orientation of art.

Alongside and dependent on the rich development of aesthetic, scientific, and mathematical distancing arose other modes of understanding man, which were called forth initially by the practical exigencies of political life.

From a Christian standpoint such an existence (in spite of all aesthetic) is sin, it is the sin of poetizing instead of being, of standing in relation to the Good and the True through imagination instead of being that, or rather existentially striving to be it.

They function as the religious vocation, the seduction for the enjoyment of aesthetic pleasure, the tantalizing tease, the pitch of the salesman, the marriage «proposal,» the «come on,» the «proposition» of the lover.

Greek existence came into being through an act of aesthetic distancing of nature and the gods, which freed the Greek to become aware of the formal properties of the world.

in the absence of restraints On his choice of aesthetic problems and of his methods of solving them, but even more in his power of constructing aesthetic objects that add to the values of life.

Who would not put up with many things that seem odd, exaggerated, or circumstantial — with many things that to us, born under a different sun and in a different time, seem to be tasteless or even laughable — for the sake of human enrichment and of aesthetic and religious elevation?

Intensity of aesthetic experience is satisfying, uplifting, energizing.

This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation of aesthetic experience in postwar America.

A Theory of Aesthetic Response.