| She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley. |
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| Charles's father, however, preferred business and sports and regretted that his son had turned out an aesthete and a poet. |
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| A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous. |
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| By this time, I am a confirmed aesthete with a pronounced distaste for the great outdoors. |
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| He was never one to palliate or eulogise, he was never a regulation aesthete. |
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| Being an aesthete with high standards of evidence and argumentation, these intrusions chap him. |
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| Her attitude is now certainly sadder, her descriptions more concrete, her approach less that of the aesthete. |
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| He was a cultured aesthete who loved music, architecture, and philosophy, even corresponding at length with Voltaire. |
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| The most important point to make is that the aesthete and intellectual showed not the least reservation with flagrant melodrama. |
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| He remains an aesthete, but his appreciation of culture is now spiritually empty. |
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| His pose was that of the dandy and the aesthete, emphatically not that of the angry young man. |
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| Georges Migot, the French painter, engraver, poet, philosopher, aesthete, and composer, remains little known in today's musical world. |
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| Roger Hall: He was a photographer, he was a scientist, he was an aesthete, but he was also a businessman. |
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| He is a deceptive film-maker, part polemicist, part aesthete. |
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| Ever the aesthete, Kris Van Assche restated his attachment to beautiful basics. |
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| In the breadth of his scholarship and interests, in the precision of his dress and tastes, he was something of a nineteenth-century man, an aesthete, a bit of a dandy. |
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| The refined aesthete Barry Humphries has acclimatized himself to English society, but the monsters he gestates rampage on his behalf and terrorize the toffs. |
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| Moreover, the aesthete fails to see that in the ethical the aesthetic is not abolished but ennobled. |
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| His letters to her reveal a deep love that grew with age. The portrait of Keynes the aesthete is just as stirring. |
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| She is an aesthete, knows her image is important, and spends time grooming her style and beauty. |
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| She suffered in silence, comforted only by poetry and the friendship of those who appreciated her qualities as a woman of culture and aesthete. |
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| Franco Farina, painter, aesthete, master of techniques using oil paints and watercolours. |
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| The aesthete Warhol would also have felt at home here in the modern-traditional hostel on the Rhine. |
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| The stamp of an aesthete guided by the power of his sketches and an uncompromising, avant-garde style. |
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| The trouble was that the fight took on a life of its own, until the warrior in Hilton nearly crushed the aesthete. |
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| Edith was a fascinating character, at once a strict fundamentalist and a sophisticated, warm-hearted aesthete. |
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| On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables. |
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| It's a hoot, but can't overwrite the memory of that other diabolical aesthete who habitually enjoys an entrée of quid pro quo with an FBI youngling before the dinner gong. |
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| Try Gray's pina colada, or, if you're an aesthete, papaya. |
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| Of special note is the remarkable decoration work on the movement which, revealed through the transparent caseback, will appeal to the aesthete in search of the unusual. |
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| Mistler is a 60-ish, emotionally dissociated businessman aesthete who, on learning that he has liver cancer, flees a wearisome job, a wife whom he no longer respects and a son whom he does not understand. |
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| Being black and being gay, and an aesthete as well, launched Ligon — and us, vicariously, as we contemplate the work — into a crossfire of allurements and compunctions. |
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| Frobisher is an amoral aesthete out of Waugh and Powell, and Vyvyan Ayres, his elderly host and slave-driver, quotes Nietzsche with nasty, decadent charm. |
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| There is the scarlet Dr Pozzi, painted as a handsome, louche aesthete, whose dressing gown slyly evokes cardinals: contemporary British reviewers found it objectionably Parisian, too insolent, too en vogue. |
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| He was an insatiable researcher, a demanding craftsman, refined aesthete, bold entrepreneur and determined, generous watchmaker-manager all wrapped into one. |
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| Exceptionally talented guitarist, smiling aesthete, brilliant composer, adored entertainer, discreet humanist, licensed charmer, Sacha Distel surfed all his life on the waves of a turbulent century. |
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| Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete. |
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| Waugh soon overcame his initial aversion to Lancing, settled in and established his reputation as an aesthete. |
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