To many, the costs may not even appear to be financial at all, but merely aesthetic—a terrible shame, but nothing to do with money.

对许多人来说，这些损失可能根本不是财务上的问题，而仅仅是审美上的问题——这是一种可怕的耻辱，但与金钱无关。

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What highly creative artistic activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular.

具有高度创造性的艺术活动所产生的并不是一种超越既定界限的新的概括，而是一种美学上的特殊。

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"We could look for beacons." "It could be that there are alien civilizations that have simply created something a little bit like a lighthouse that sweeps the plane of the galaxy, goes bleep, and it's there to attract attention, or it's a monument, or an aesthetic symbol or even a religious symbol.

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It's a religious image. It's also a gendered religious image; it's also an aesthetic image.

这是一个宗教场景，一个温柔的宗教场景;,也是一个具有审美意味的宗教场景。

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It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.

实际上，这是一种非常从容不迫有意识的,对早期叶芝的书里体现出的后浪漫审美的抛弃，甚至连早期那本书的封面，都体现出了这种倾向。

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Filtering classic rock and pop hooks through a willfully lo-fi aesthetic a la Pavement or Guided by Voices, Philadelphia's Dr. Dog sounds both timeless and immediate.

NPR: Dr. Dog: Classic Rock and Pop Made Simple

Filtering classic rock and pop hooks through a willfully lo-fi aesthetic a la Pavement or Guided by Voices, Philadelphia's Dr. Dog sounds both timeless and immediate, as only the best music can.

NPR: Dr. Dog: Timeless and Immediate

For example, the Wythe Hotel, which opened last summer in a former barrel factory in Williamsburg, offers a rawer industrial aesthetic and a burgeoning social calendar.

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