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  • s  lacking aesthetic sensibility;

  • Despite their inartistic preoccupation with profits, the Warners have managed to turn out some of Hollywood's most highly respected pictures.
  • It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess.
  • Result of the preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt.
News & Articles

  • Bob Kravitz: Winning football, but not good football
    A phalanx of reporters surrounded Colts cornerback Cassius Vaughn's locker following the team's inartistic but huge 22-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans. The reason? Vaughn had two interceptions in the game.
    Dec. 2, 2013 - The Indianapolis Star
Quotes

  • Paul Gauguin in Baltimore Sun
    Paul Planat, founder and editor of an influential architectural journal, denounced it as an "inartistic ...... scaffolding of crossbars and angled iron" and said it had a "hideously unfinished look."
  • Felix Mendelssohn in Wall Street Journal
    It is inartistic, nay barbaric, to alter anything they [composers] have written, even by a single note,said Mendelssohn.

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