Artistic
[ɑː'tɪstɪk] or [ɑr'tɪstɪk]
Definition
(adj.) satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; 'artistic workmanship' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of art or artists; 'his artistic background' .
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Artistical
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Skilful, masterly, workman-like.
Checker: Stella
Examples
- As experiences they have both an artistic and an esthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The completed rail is then covered with a finishing strip, known as the blind rail, which covers the unsightly bolt heads and adds to the artistic effect of the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I do love you, Newland, for being so artistic! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They are still partly on a marriage, and partly on an artistic, tour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was a most artistic and delicate writer, and Socrates could write nothing consecutive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such sculptures as those of Phidias, Myron, and Polyclitus that still survive, witness to the artistic quality of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the subordination of particulars to general principles he experienced a satisfaction akin to the sen se of beauty or the joy of artistic production. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In New York, for many years past, every new movement, philanthropic, municipal or artistic, had taken account of his opinion and wanted his name. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Not merely for its general ideas and their artistic presentation but for its models of law it went to the records of alien peoples. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hence the poverty of their suggestions along educational and artistic lines. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To all time they will be known as an artistic, noble, and religious people, who cherished their dead and would not allow that the good and beautiful and great should altogether pass away. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Republic of Plato, like the Athens of Pericles, has an artistic as well as a political side. Plato. The Republic.
- Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In Syria there were slaves in sufficient quantity to make real buildings, but the artistic spirit is as debased as anything made by machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It has been considered artistic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You daren't be anything that isn't amazingly A TERRE, SO much A TERRE that it is the artistic creation of ordinariness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Without a strong artistic tradition, the life and so the politics of a nation sink into a barren routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There IS a way, says Phil with a highly artistic turn of his brush; what I'm a-doing at present. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity! John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Many useful and artistic articles were made under this first patented process, including maps, surgical bandages, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I will not go so far as to say that; but you know I have the artistic temperament, and therefore admire beauty always. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Given the opportunity, all races are artistic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But these successors had not the artistic instinct or touch of the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Wherever men of almost any race have been comparatively safe in this fashion for such a length of time, they have developed much artistic beauty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But they do not seem to have developed the artistic skill of their more northerly kindred, the European Later Pal?olithic races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of course—the artistic sense, sneered Caliphronas in such a disagreeable way, that Maurice again looked at him in astonishment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The writer is not fashioning his ideas into an artistic whole; they take possession of him and are too much for him. Plato. The Republic.
- During his days in prison he busied himself in penning his philosophic, religious, and artistic meditations, as many other illustrious prisoners have done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Checker: Stella