Rainbows often have aesthetic appeal.

When evaluating a coin, the following — often subjective — factors may be considered: 1 ) " eye appeal " or the aesthetic interest of the coin ; 2 ) dents on the rim ; 3 ) unsightly scratches or other blemishes on the surface of the coin ; 4 ) luster ; 5 ) toning ; 6 ) level of detail retained, where a coin with full details obviously is valued higher than one with worn details.

Crafters may have a preference for one type of hook material over another due to aesthetic appeal, yarn glide, or hand disorders such as arthritis, where bamboo or wood hooks are favored over metal for the perceived warmth and flexibility during use.

But in the process, much of the emotional appeal, and many of the original aesthetic goals were lost.

Some preparation is done to enhance the taste or aesthetic appeal ; other preparation may help to preserve the food ; others may be involved in cultural identity.

The university's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal.

Karl Popper argues that a preference for simple theories need not appeal to practical or aesthetic considerations.

Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds.

The sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input that the campus community had, and its aesthetic appeal.

Prose, instead, comprises full, grammatical sentences, which then constitute paragraphs and overlook aesthetic appeal.

Whereas early French hip hop was seen as mimicking American hip hop in terms of aesthetic appeal, later French rappers added their own cultural and racial identities to the mix.

Because of its aesthetic appeal and the adaptation of the plant to warm climates, ginger is often used as landscaping around subtropical homes.

In addition to their scientific importance, archaeological remains sometimes have political or cultural significance to descendants of the people who produced them, monetary value to collectors, or simply strong aesthetic appeal.

In most depictions, Cleopatra is portrayed as a great beauty, and her successive conquests of the world's most powerful men are taken as proof of her aesthetic and sexual appeal.

Expensive collectible watches, valued more for their workmanship and aesthetic appeal than for simple timekeeping, often have purely mechanical movements and are powered by springs, even though mechanical movements are less accurate than more affordable quartz movements.

The known settled populations were hunter-gatherer societies that had no knowledge of metals and that produced utilitarian crafts for everyday use ( especially woven reed baskets ) of the highest quality and with graphic embellishments of great aesthetic appeal.

The meres were used for fishing as well as for boating, and would have had extensive aesthetic appeal.

Brick castles are less common in England than stone or earth and timber constructions ; when brick was chosen as a building material it was often for its aesthetic appeal or because it was fashionable.

Glass, concrete, and terrazzo sinks are usually designed for their aesthetic appeal and can be obtained in a wide variety of unusual shapes and colors such as floral shapes.

The term describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man whose beauty ( and sexual appeal ) transcends the boundary of gender or sexual orientation.

He is one of the first élèves of the École des Beaux Arts to practice architecture in the region and his homes and buildings are famous for their exterior aesthetic appeal, comfortable interiors, well-crafted details and built-in furniture.

When these postal commodities are overprinted, they are always very carefully positioned for aesthetic appeal, usually on the blank outer border (" selvage ") of the paper.

Private overprints generally remain outside the formal realm of philately, although individual issues can achieve notoriety through their popularity or aesthetic appeal.

For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most free that the pure intellect can be from the dictates of will ; here we contemplate perfection of form without any kind of worldly agenda, and thus any intrusion of utility or politics would ruin the point of the beauty.

The critic accused Pasternak of distorting Goethe's " progressive ," meanings to support " the reactionary theory of ' pure art '", as well as introducing aesthetic and individualist values.

Following this machine aesthetic, modernist designers typically rejected decorative motifs in design, preferring to emphasize the materials used and pure geometrical forms.

However, this influence is also often shallow and purely aesthetic in nature, ignoring some of Peckinpah's greatest strengths in favor of pure imitation of his stylish approach to cinematic violence.

Stone was generally shunned by the critical architectural community for his repudiation of pure modernist aesthetic, but his office was prominent and successful.

Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness.

Hardy regards as " pure " the kinds of mathematics that are independent of the physical world, but also considers some " applied " mathematicians, such as the physicists Maxwell and Einstein, to be among the " real " mathematicians, whose work " has permanent aesthetic value " and " is eternal because the best of it may, like the best literature, continue to cause intense emotional satisfaction to thousands of people after thousands of years.

Various schools of industrial design and / or product design may specialize in one of these aspects, ranging from pure art colleges ( product styling ) to mixed programs of engineering and design, to related disciplines like exhibit design and interior design, to schools where aesthetic design is almost completely subordinated to concerns of function and ergonomics of use ( the so-called functionalist school ).

Postminimalist artworks are usually everyday objects, use simple materials, and sometimes take on a " pure ", formalist aesthetic.

The rejection of art for art's sake, whose indifference in front of nationality issues enraged the historian, was notably illustrated by his 1902 letter to the like-minded Luceafărul editors, which stated: " You gentlemen should not allow aesthetic preoccupations to play the decisive part, and you are not granted such circumstances as to dedicate yourselves to pure art.

In Aristotelian philosophy, this is regarded as one of the metaphysical aspects of things ; in the Kantian view of the pure aesthetic, it is understood as something non-conceptual that frees the mind.

The purism was characterized by the use of oval or barrel vaults, arches, half domes and carved decoration limited to some strategic areas, evaluating the smooth space as an exponent of this new more pure and harmonious aesthetic.

" He later broke with modernism's pure aesthetic.

This dance represents a spiritual culmination for the dancer who soars into the realm of pure aesthetic delight.

In general, resin modified glass-ionomer cements can achieve a better aesthetic result than conventional glass ionomers, but not as good as pure composites.

A pure aesthetic judgement excludes the object's purpose.

The attack read in part, "... the translator clearly distorts Goethe's ideas ... in order to defend the reactionary theory of ' pure art ' ... he introduces an aesthetic and individualist flavor into the text ... attributes a reactionary idea to Goethe ... distorts the social and philosophical meaning ..."

The aesthetic experience temporarily emancipates the subject from the Will's domination and raises them to a level of pure perception.

"… aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for the moment above all willing, above all desires and cares ; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.

Penrose claimed that such information is Platonic, representing pure mathematical truth, aesthetic and ethical values.

Nevertheless, as Tudor Vianu indicated, although Caragiale preferred observation and spontaneity to speculation, he was not adverse to pure philosophical analysis, and frequently quoted the classics in defense of his aesthetic guidelines.

Lucas's aesthetic and style was strongly influenced by it for the Star Wars films and a number of other works, including American Graffiti and his pure cinema short films 6-18-67, 1: 42. 08, Look at Life, his short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB and the feature it inspired, THX 1138.

However, he sharply criticized depictions of nude women and prepared food, as these stimulate desire and thus hinder the viewer from the aesthetic experience and becoming " the pure subject of will-less knowing.

She discusses Hilton Kramer's objection to the piece as an extension of Modernist ideas about art, stating, " the piece blatantly subverts modernist value systems, which privilege the ‘ pure ’ aesthetic object over the debased sentimentality of the domestic and popular arts ".