Aestheticism may be only a love of sensational effects, with no glimpse of the ideal.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
There is a beauty in it too, for the Aestheticism of a Nero.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
In Dingelstedt's account I recognize two things: his friendly disposition towards me, with which he has been inspired by you, and his most absolute incapability, with all his Aestheticism, of conceiving the slightest notion of what had to be conceived.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)