Beauty
in sentence
1928 examples of Beauty in a sentence
Delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart, which is
beauty.
I try to figure out intellectually, philosophically, psychologically, what the experience of
beauty
is, what sensibly can be said about it and how people go off the rails in trying to understand it.
An account that explains the presence of
beauty
in everything on this list is not going to be easy.
I can, however, give you at least a taste of what I regard as the most powerful theory of
beauty
we yet have.
Of course, a lot of people think they already know the proper answer to the question, "What is beauty?"
Or, as some people, especially academics prefer,
beauty
is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder.
Taste for both natural
beauty
and for the arts travel across cultures with great ease.
Now, I personally have no doubt whatsoever that the experience of beauty, with its emotional intensity and pleasure, belongs to our evolved human psychology.
The experience of
beauty
is one component in a whole series of Darwinian adaptations.
Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of
beauty
is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.
The ideal savanna landscape is one of the clearest examples where human beings everywhere find
beauty
in similar visual experience.
But, someone might argue, that's natural
beauty.
How about artistic
beauty?
But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings: the
beauty
we find in skilled performances.
We find
beauty
in something done well.
Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found
beauty
in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.
Is
beauty
in the eye of the beholder?
Our powerful reaction to images, to the expression of emotion in art, to the
beauty
of music, to the night sky, will be with us and our descendants for as long as the human race exists.
And when I'm on my bike, I feel that I connect with the profound
beauty
of Israel, and I feel that I'm united with this country's history and biblical law.
We need to start embracing the
beauty
of balance.
Now on the one hand, exhorting us to "drill, baby, drill," because God put those resources into the ground in order for us to exploit them, and on the other, glorying in the wilderness of Alaska's untouched
beauty
on her hit reality TV show.
There's a world of
beauty
and efficiency to explore here using nature as a design tool.
I love it that my Muslim conversation partners often speak of
beauty
as a core moral value.
And
beauty
doesn't equate to goodness, and certainly doesn't equate to contentment.
And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the
beauty
of this funny place called life.
The real
beauty
of DNA though is in its imperfections.
In music and poetry, in the natural world of
beauty
and in the small ordinary things of life, there is a deep, indwelling presence that makes them extraordinary.
Robert Full and Frans Lanting and others; the
beauty
of the things that they showed.
I was fascinated by the elegance and
beauty
of biology.
And that's the
beauty
of doing things that are used and interact with people.
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