He remains an aesthete, but his appreciation of culture is now spiritually empty. |
The most important point to make is that the aesthete and intellectual showed not the least reservation with flagrant melodrama. |
Being an aesthete with high standards of evidence and argumentation, these intrusions chap him. |
Her attitude is now certainly sadder, her descriptions more concrete, her approach less that of the aesthete. |
A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous. |
She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley. |