A connection has been made between political action and esthetic effect.

The Peruvians knew how to use abstraction for esthetic effect, he said.

Sometimes it is necessary to compromise structural simplicity to achieve an esthetic effect.

Residents in the area, however, also express concerns about the environmental and esthetic effects of the highway's completion.

The ads ignore the esthetic effects of drifting tobacco smoke.

This arrangement affords a social strategy as well as an esthetic effect.

The effect on the listener is not primarily the esthetic effect of the melody.

They were designed to be always present and never obtrusive: this was a difficult esthetic effect to achieve, but their designer had achieved it.

Lovers have told me I do this with indifferent esthetic effect, but it pleases me.

The awkwardness is just an esthetic effect.

It incorporates many features of the original building, a necessity dictated by the restricted budget and one that contributes to its esthetic effect.

It creates a pleasing esthetic effect.

From this point on, it was hard for me not to imagine that someone had charted this route for esthetic effect.

Ms. Zempel's thinking is tortuous, but there is pleasure in her esthetic effects, including the shadows cast by the twigs.

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.

But even divided into manageable chunks, the Whitney's vast, foursquare Bauhaus galleries tend to swallow up quiet esthetic effects.

Both as a painter and a sculptor, Mr. Priore conveys zest, anger and a certain disregard for esthetic effects.

Oliver built a number of adobe houses for himself and his family, both because he liked the esthetic effect, and because the building materials were extremely inexpensive.

Like Gaetano Pesce, Kuramata linked esthetic effects to the probing of new materials and production methods and effects.

Sculptures, murals, mosaics, frescoes, tapestries, bas-reliefs and fountains are all cited as possible ways "to complement the artistic and esthetic effect of any buildings."

The latter process not only is more complicated and time intensive, but also introduces an element of risk in regard to both the success of execution and the esthetic effect.

And its explanatory texts suggest not only the esthetic effect, but also the moral dimension that this art - funerary, devotional, philosophical - carried for the people who created it.

The problem with both Ms. Allyn's and Ms. Min's efforts is that they're not particularly good art: they hold the attention by the power of moral principle, not esthetic effect.

If the beetle were to become established, the cost of removing and replacing the trees and the decline in real estate values will have a severe economic effect in addition to the severe esthetic effects."

Obviously it is appropriately less, if indeed it pertains at all, because the music of these cultures does not rely on the architecture of Western form nor on the colorism of Western harmony for its esthetic effects.