Sentences with phrase «more of an aesthetic»

It doesn't affect the usability of the insert though, more of an aesthetic issue.

«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.

Ignoring the «extremely crude» remark (which seems to be more of an aesthetic judgment), aren't all stunts «dangerous?»

Chevy claims that after benchmarking a few sports cars with active wings, they came to the conclusion that those serve more of an aesthetic purpose than anything else.

For years Samsung has been heavily changing Android's look and feel to match more of an aesthetic they thought would work better, and for the most part Samsung has been on the wrong side of history in this regard.

The variety of colors and shapes are more of an aesthetic to the human buyer than to your rabbit.

Choosing your own character, while more of an aesthetic preference, is a nice inclusion as well.

air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem in 1970.

«When the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem.

Lollipop for Samsung devices is more of an aesthetic update than a meaningful upgrade.

The bezel-less trend is more of an aesthetic choice, but consumers can live without it.

Not exact matches

Plenty of windows and transparent dividers will make the area feel more visible (and help your workplace aesthetic feel more modern).

Apple is just one of many makers of this sort of stuff, but its impact has been far more than aesthetic.

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.

Plank likes his chances, in part because the wide appeal of Under Armour's locker - room aesthetic and barking brand voice could transfer to any number of connected products (think: Future Girl), but also because he now has more fitness data about users than even the leading tech companies.

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Besides that nod toward more sustainable lifestyles, the blog and product line project an aesthetic of masculinity and old - fashioned self - reliance — perhaps to a kitschy fault.

A more somber war room - like aesthetic can be found in other parts of the 7,250 - square - foot space, such as this conference room.

The issue of housing has become the final coat of gloss on recent budget announcements, mentioned in passing to tick the boxes of a «well rounded» economic plan, but equating to little more than aesthetic fluff.

Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

Instead, it was often a blend of types — biblical, doctrinal, apologetic, philosophical, practical, aesthetic — focused through one or more topics.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

From this perspective, religious experience includes more than a moral or philosophical or even an aesthetic vision of the universe.

But it explains why contemplation of the majestic figures in Michelangelo's Medici Chapel is an experience more spiritual than aesthetic.

That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.

«The aesthetic image allows for a more existential aspect of communication and raises questions of self - understanding and identity through expression».

Most pervasively, a certain poetic dignity is lost, and that is more than an aesthetic question, for it is partly this dignity that makes Psalms so resonant an instrument of prayer.

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.

And, since Whitehead was more explicit on the status of beauty, we might make Russell's aesthetic explicit.

The «more than» is decisive, for the evils God receives are like impulses that God then renders into a richness of contrast, supplementing evil with its ideal complement, and so achieving aesthetic harmony.

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).

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.

Moreover, Hartshorne himself in the last decade of his career, put much more emphasis on a particular table of options for thinking about God and the world as a way of displaying the advantages of his own metaphysics («The Aesthetic Dimensions» 17; «God, Necessary and Contingent» 296; «Can Philosophers» 17).

Creatures capable of self - reflectively enjoying aesthetic values contribute richer, more diverse experiences than simpler creatures.

The rites have become a more vivid visual and aesthetic catechesis for a culture whose thirst for the integral beauty of truth is in equal measure with its deprivation of it.

If we want to see and understand those forces as they truly are, then we must look not to reason (which acts as a distorting lens), but to our more immediate, primordial ways of knowing, that is, aesthetic intuition (the divine inspiration of the artist) and action.

Hartshorne's position on abortion is also influenced by his theory of aesthetic value, which emphasizes that a diversity of experiences balanced by an aesthetically pleasing amount of complexity and orderliness contributes to life and to God, more fully than do less balanced experiences.

But aesthetic valuation is a more basic to the nature of the universe than moral valuation.

Very likely, I am one of those whose orientation is much more aesthetic than ethical.

Or perhaps we are to adopt the position that though Christians in the past may have produced examples of art that glorified the incarnate Christ by giving aesthetic concretization to the more abstract words of Scripture, it is regrettable that they did so.

The speculation turns out to be not a reasonable alternative reading of the available evidence but a complete and random reshuffling of the pieces to construct a picture more satisfying to the aesthetic (Wilson) or political (Spong) sensibilities of the authors.

Much that passes as worship is not worship at all, but aesthetic enjoyment, moralizing, or a more or less perfunctory doing of habitual acts.

Doing a long series of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment of vivid immediate experience.8 «Aesthetic» experience in the more usual sense of tile term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded of the cliche situation in which one member of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.&raMore's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.&ramore secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

By interpreting the symbolic process cosmologically we may envisage reality (the aesthetic whole) rather than our subjectivity as taking the initiative, first by linking us to itself in our primary perception and second by flowing through the channels of our perception until it comes closer to the pole of secondary perception (without ever quite arriving) where it can impress its importance upon us in a more vivid manner.

However, I shall attempt to show that an aesthetic reading of cosmic purpose is more comprehensive than consciousness - oriented teleologies (such as that of Teilhard de Chardin).

It was not until the concept of aesthetic value in the process of concretion was interpreted as the Something which is supremely important to the increase of value and quality in human life that this picture became more clear.

The aesthetic order includes the moral and conceptual and much more, because it is the order of the total concrete fullness of the world.

Similarly, human aesthetic experiences gain their authenticity and value from their being encounters with yet another aspect of the multidimensional reality that encompasses humanity Experiences of beauty are much more than emotion recalled in tranquillity; they are engagements with the everlasting truth of being.

We may grasp this aesthetic notion of value more firmly if we contrast it with the notion of evil, the contrary of value.10 Evil is a quality associated with trends, persons or phenomena that remain in or degenerate into chaos or triviality when the possibility of harmony and intensity is in fact open to them.