But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.

Interest remained, however, in the possibility that it would serve as a useful supplementary method for counteracting spoilage losses and for preserving some foods at lower over-all costs than freezing, or without employing heat or chemicals with their attendant taste alterations.

Because the food is selected with thought for its nutritional value, care for its origin, and prepared in a manner that retains the most nutrients, the food does taste good.

However, by cultivating a wine dealer and accepting his advice, one will soon enough ascertain whether he has any knowledge of wines ( as opposed to what he may have been told by salesmen and promoters ) and, better yet, whether he has a taste for wine.

The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.

The cowboy films, the cops and robbers films, and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; ;

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.

From this taste of the 1920s, we leaped way out to Stan Getz's private brand of progressive jazz, which did lovely, subtle things for `` Baubles, Bangles And Beads '', and a couple of ballards.

" Alex's friends (" droogs " in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, Nadsat ) are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle ; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command ; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence.

In the final chapter, Alex has a new trio of droogs, but he finds he is beginning to outgrow his taste for violence.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Reported to have a bitter and unpleasant taste, they are more useful for survival purposes.

The baked products were evaluated for loaf volume, moisture content, color, odor, taste and texture.

However, the classics had not refined his taste, for he was amused by setting itinerant scholars, who swarmed to his court, to abuse one another in the indescribably filthy Latin scolding matches which were then the fashion.

In 1779, he named this part of the air " oxygen " ( Greek for " becoming sharp " because he claimed that the sharp taste of acids came from oxygen ), and the other " azote " ( Greek " no life ").

From the 17th century onwards, " scandalous memoirs " by supposed libertines, serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

Aesthetics ( also spelled æsthetics ) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

Tin Machine IIs arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be " in exquisite taste ", " a show of wrong, obscene images ", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.

However, there were also many harsh critics of others art as well, showing the difference in style and taste amongst different painters.

According to Simon Frith pop music is produced " as a matter of enterprise not art ", is " designed to appeal to everyone " and " doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste ".

As a matter of fact, the style received harsh criticism, and was seen by some to be superficial and of poor taste, especially when compared to neoclassicism ; despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities, and since the mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians.

This showed the beginnings of removing art collections from the private domain of aristocracy and the wealthy into the public sphere, where they were seen as sites for educating the masses in taste and cultural refinement.

The magnificence of the ancient city, and the taste of its citizens for the encouragement of art, are attested by Cicero, who calls it in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum ; and some evidence of it remained, even in the days of that orator, in the statues preserved by the Thermitani, to whom they had been restored by Scipio, after the conquest of Carthage.

A modern biography brought to general attention his other roles, as an arbiter of taste, an influential art critic and an urbaniste

Boyer in particular introduced him to art galleries and good literature, and Chevalier would try to copy him as the man of taste.

The argument states that certain art museums are aimed at perpetuating aristocratic and upper class ideals of taste and excludes segments of society without the social opportunities to develop such interest.

Theophilos, who had received an excellent education from John Hylilas, the grammarian, was a great admirer of music and a lover of art, although his taste was not of the highest.

: The notion of one art for the ' cultural ,' i. e., the favored few in any given society and of another subart for the ' uncultured ,' i. e., an excluded majority as deficient in Gutenberg skills as they are untutored in ' taste ,' in fact represents the last survival in mass industrial societies ( capitalist, socialist, communist — it makes no difference in this regard ) of an invidious distinction proper only to a class-structured community.

Patrons who have influenced taste are also represented by works of art from their collections, these include: Horace Walpole ( a major influence on the Gothic Revival ), William Thomas Beckford and Thomas Hope.

Greenberg held similar views to Broch concerning the beauty and truth dichotomy, believing that the avant-garde style arose in order to defend aesthetic standards from the decline of taste involved in consumer society and that kitsch and art were opposites, which he outlined in his essay " Avant-Garde and Kitsch " which appeared in the Partisan Review in 1939.

Broch argued that the genesis of kitsch was in Romanticism, which wasn't kitsch itself, but which opened the door for kitsch taste by emphasizing the need for expressive and evocative art work.

Often, art which was found to be kitsch showed technical talent, such as in creating accurate representations, but lacked good taste.

In any case, whatever difficulty there is in defining boundaries between kitsch and fine art since the beginning of postmodernism, the word " kitsch " still remains in common use to label anything seen as being in poor taste.

From dining to shopping, people can view art galleries around downtown and can taste exquisite cuisines from Armenian to Italian and Mexican to Asian.

In conjunction with Sir Henry Acland, Liddell did much to encourage the study of art at Oxford, and his taste and judgment gained him the admiration and friendship of Ruskin.

Artistic academies were established all over Europe by the end of the 18th century, and many, like the Akademie der Künste in Berlin ( founded 1696 ), the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid ( founded 1744 ), the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg ( 1757 ), the Royal Academy in London ( 1768 ) and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan ( 1776 ) still run art schools and hold large exhibitions, although their influence on taste greatly declined from the late 19th century.

The weekly satirical magazine Ulk (" Prank ") had published the short text Märchen (" Fairy Tale ") in 1907 in which the 17-year-old Tucholsky made fun of Kaiser Wilhelm II's taste in art.

He studied law at the Middle Temple and traveled extensively in Europe where his taste in literature, music, and art was developed and refined.

He has very fine taste in art, possessing several masterpieces of both painting and sculpture, from ancient and modern European masters, all of which are housed in the Grand Salon of the Nautilus, along with his inestimably valuable collection of pearls, corals and such other marine products, which he had gathered with his own hands.

The Nagarakertagama, written in 1365 depict a sophisticated court with refined taste in art and literature, and a complex system of religious rituals.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.