Others disagree, on both esthetic and technical grounds.

My objection rests on practical, ideological and esthetic grounds.

The board denied it on esthetic grounds, but really we don't know where else to go but to the courts.

The company enjoys its association with art and artists on philosophical as well as esthetic grounds.

Las Vegas may be difficult to defend on esthetic and narrowly moralistic grounds, but for me it's mostly a question of taste.

It thus seemed that his idle threats and stumbling remarks were being punished almost on esthetic grounds.

I like Mr. Scorsese's earlier films very much on esthetic and theological grounds.

Outside the courtroom, however, the author's literary style would be actionable on esthetic grounds.

That would be like criticizing elevator music on esthetic grounds.

On theoretical, historical and esthetic grounds, there seems to me to be absolutely nothing wrong with the practice.