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    artistic


    1. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world


    2. Then there had been what Joris had termed ‘bits and pieces’ – in truth, valuable artefacts collected from all over the world that he had garnered during his travels; after discussions with Berndt who had taken a quick look at the vast store of, without exception, items of considerable artistic merit if not value, Kara had agreed that the bulk might be offered to the new Guild to form the basis of a museum of some sort


    3. These activities are very artistic and might be the very thing that your partner would love to be a part of


    4. I am only grateful that Alastair, being of a typical artistic temperament, is not overly bothered with practicalities and can camp here without going insane as long as the one or two things which are important to him are accommodated


    5. The camera was still a relatively new thing and artistic shots of fairies and such like were not uncommon


    6. Great-aunt Edith showed Annie how to scan photographs and store them as images on the computer, using a collection of her very own black and white artistic poses from her early days in the glamour business, images which would now be considered at best cute but in most cases just as period pieces


    7. I thought I’d hang around the artistic quarter looking interesting and see if anyone bites


    8. very own black and white artistic poses from her early days in the


    9. You can imagine how that set the artistic community by the ears! Bitchy lot at the best of times


    10. Gymnastics was both a required activity and also the center of an orbit of students who were highly proficient in the more strenuous disciplines of artistic and acrobatic gymnastics

    11. It was difficult to find someone of Harry's caliber to participate in the acrobatics, though in the artistic floor exercises and rings, and other individual disciplines Harry was alone in expertise and flourish


    12. "I guess I'm that self-centered but yeah, I consider my music an artistic success when it sounds the way I wanted it to sound, when I can say with this yandrille what I wanted to say


    13. The measure of artistic fulfilment consists in the


    14. She could rely on no highly placed relation to push her up the ladder in the artistic community or anywhere else


    15. Quinn’s ambitions were in artistic fields, and he is


    16. Remained the premonition that although her most Subtle and brilliant artistic “moment” was yet to Be discovered and recognized—her critics would


    17. important thing is that athletic and artistic contests have been held here since antiquity


    18. They were acquiring a computer-like efficiency at the expense of the more artistic traits: a true fuzzy logic


    19. “I’m in need of your artistic abilities


    20. Maria flatters was artistic

    21. We arrived at the complex before noon, and there were no more tickets to that “Sistine Chapel of the quaternary art” as someone has called that artistic center


    22. She insisted, besides, that she understood the determination and the need to protect the caves, but maintained that that did not justify the decision not to allow us to visit the museum which was an artistic entity totally independent and does not require the same protective measures


    23. The kind of personality that runs a prison, or ‘detention barracks,’ is not often noted for artistic creativity


    24. through their artistic hairstyles


    25. Miguel loved to rock power moves with style, so he threw in high shouldered spins on his back for an artistic transition in between his hydraulic nutcrackers


    26. Behind him, the word “Dauntless” is spray-painted in red artistic lettering on a concrete wall


    27. a) Creation and maintenance of the artistic works,


    28. She could put on several frills and invent a few artistic details to enhance the horror


    29. The entrance hall proved to be a huge open room with no furniture, but with various artistic wall hangings and statues set around the walls


    30. Suggest a discussion on the relative achievement—intellectual, athletic, artistic, or otherwise—of various racial or ethnic categories and you are a bigoted racial profiler

    31. When art proceeds from a mold of hatred and rejection of the society in which the artist lives, artistic expression tends to become banal soup cans or incomprehensible abstraction


    32. The Atlantis gallery in London was among the first havens of artistic creativity to discover that pieces of the human body may be considered works of art if properly presented


    33. Then there is the artistic apogee of a pregnant woman, her womb ripped open to display the fetus


    34. This suggests that there must be as many distinctive inner natures as there are artistic bodies to incorporate them, and so at least that many definitions of what art is valid and what is not


    35. This has penetrated deeply into both elite and popular culture as the artistic brigades of Civil Warriors march on


    36. thinking of artistic expression, subject matter, or technique


    37. “What other corner of the earth celebrates in various localities its regional dish, receiving it with brass-drums and with cymbals, glorifying it with songs and poetry as it is done with the “botillo”? Yes, there are indeed programs that praise some nutritious products to the tunes of popular songs, but those represent lucrative parodies for sale, not artistic inspiration of exaltation


    38. Accustomed to California’s Catholic missions, Amante, Lucille and Roger left the place quite disappointed as far as its artistic value goes, without judging, naturally, the religious value which that historic enclosure represents for that city and that entire region


    39. Towards Circular Quay’s extreme end shines the internationally and really exquisite and impressive Opera House, one of the most renowned and active artistic centers in the world


    40. Moments later, he realized, though too late, however, that one of those packages contained postcards of Russian sculpture of very little artistic value which was worthless to him

    41. With resplendent artistic designs in its ceiling and its two thousand five hundred feet in length, it is the longest corridor in China and possibly in the world


    42. But the ceiling displays a more artistic touch, with thousands of ribs and short bones pinned together in various geometrical patterns


    43. After the last lesson, he treaded softly on her lily white skin with his artistic fingers exploring all the curves and contours


    44. He prided himself on conquering white females; something his grandfather could not lay hands on—combining sizzling Kamasutra experiments with artistic and sensitive foreplays


    45. Salamanca, about one hundred miles north-west of Madrid and about forty miles from the Portuguese border, is a university city with an ancient history, a preserved artistic display of picturesque art and an attractive way of life that evidences a sense of individual comfort and security


    46. It is, in Roger’s view, the ideal location for an international program in Spain, with the environment of a small city, rich in artistic monuments and folkloric life that provides students with the opportunity to develop an introductory perspective on the diversity of life and customs of ancient and modern Spain


    47. Sometimes the fear preventing your true inner artistic vision from being manifested is due to a type of


    48. They started traveling either with students in the program excursions to various cities of historical or artistic importance or by themselves to several locations of common interest and delight


    49. This artistic structure stands as one of the best examples of 14th century architecture in Europe


    50. On the way, they visited Assisi of religious as well as artistic and historic interest to both of them, and the nearby university city of Perugia, mentioned in Boccaccio’s writings, and where international students flock to study













































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    Synonyms for "artistic"

    artistic aesthetic esthetic pleasing tasteful skilful sublime discriminating graceful imaginative lovely poetic elegant creative beautiful decorative musical functional organic abstract

    "artistic" definitions

    relating to or characteristic of art or artists


    satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities


    aesthetically pleasing