(n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(2) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
(3) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(4) In 76 cases they analyzed aesthetic results and morbidity.
(5) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
(6) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
(7) Experience with 240 midface (Le Fort and zygoma) fractures in multiple trauma patients has emphasized that superior aesthetic results are obtained by immediate extended open reduction with primary bone grafting.
(8) This has provided the patient, who has a severe dentofacial problem, with the option of having all components of their malocclusion and facial aesthetic concerns addressed.
(9) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.
(10) An early preventive individual care and the consequent complex stomatological therapy are a prerequisite for the realization of the morphological, functional and aesthetic conditions that effectively assist in the social accommodation of patients with different kinds of clefts.
(11) An aesthetic of authenticity guides his approach to movie-making.
(12) Ten squamous cell carcinoma cases were provided for postoperative evaluation of tongue movement and aesthetic problems of the cervical skin.
(13) The connective tissue autograft corrects the functional and aesthetic defect of the residual lesion and a fixed prosthetic restoration can be realized.
(14) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
(15) Aesthetic surgery crosses the dividing line between surgery for reconstruction and alteration of deviations (which do not in themselves constitute objective deformities) and is sometimes even performed without medical indication, but just for the gratification of individual vanity.
(16) Over the past 14 years, from January of 1975 to December of 1988, we have done 1263 aesthetic rhinoplasties using ear cartilage.
(17) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.
(18) Well made mouthguards fitted by a dentist are a sensible investment to reduce the frequency and severity of costly dental injury and to preserve the attractive aesthetics of natural teeth (Figures 21 and 22).
(19) Compared with the conventional staged approach, immediate reconstruction appears functionally and aesthetically preferable, as well as technically easier.
(20) * The trajectories of moustaches and Movember are now crossing, in a year when facial hair became the aesthetic calling card of hipsters: “I don’t know about this whole hipster association,” explains Travis Garone, one of the original founders of Movember.
Connoisseur
Definition:
(n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(2) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
(3) Even connoisseurs of virtual rage had seen nothing like this since hundreds of online readers monstered a Guardian gap-year blog by a naive, teenaged student, Max Gogarty : a "tsunami of hate", his father called it.
(4) (A connoisseur, he also envies Apple stores where, as he put it, the cash register follows the customer.)
(5) The connoisseurs have assured me that the quality equals the best European microbreweries.
(6) That word "connoisseur" suggests grand authorities laying down the law, yet Penny argues that the connoisseur's eye can make great paintings live.
(7) Technically, on his school record, he's one of the people Grayling would class as "no great connoisseur", and yet his easy use of a whole range of legal terms suggested quite an advanced understanding of the process.
(8) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
(9) Photograph: Alamy If you aren’t put off by a high density of boutique moustaches and pedantic coffee connoisseurs, Stoneybatter is a worthwhile deviation from Temple Bar, Grafton Street and the other well-trodden tourist zones.
(10) O’Farrell told the commission that he was no “wine connoisseur” but that he was certain he would have remembered receiving the bottle.
(11) Connoisseurs of British indecision will greet Sir Howard Davies's announcement on Tuesday as an all-time, blue-chip, 24-carat masterpiece of the genre.
(12) (As any Bond connoisseur will know, Spectre is the toweringly evil Special Executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion, run on a freelance basis by kitten stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which first popped up in the Thunderball novel in 1961.)
(13) "Our politicians are heroes," joked Edmund Cocquyt, a Flemish connoisseur of bars who is making an inventory of every pub in Flanders.
(14) Connoisseurs of accountability may be intrigued to note that those who pay the piper are most able to call the tunes when they are within earshot, like voters to MPs.
(15) We can never know, but it sure seems like only a handful of connoisseurs read through them.
(16) Assembled with guidance from beer writer Zac Avery, the Attic's list of US, German and UK beers (from breweries such as Bristol's Arbor, Kernel, Hardknott, Magic Rock, Thornbridge) will bring a tear of joy to the eye of any craft beer connoisseur.
(17) Historically, proto-hipsters have been connoisseurs – people who deviate from the norm.
(18) Billroth who laid the foundation of modern abdominal surgery by performing his pioneer operations was also an excellent musician and connoisseur of the arts.
(19) In the face of daily threats of suicide and self-harm, the guards struggle as amateur psychologists and social workers become connoisseurs of despair.
(20) It will be a fight for connoisseurs of tack, of which there is no shortage at any given time.