nonutilitarian

It was the one possibly nonutilitarian piece on the man (though his skin had also displayed tattoos).

In fact, their robots are almost deliberately nonutilitarian.

I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art.

The late-20th-century selections were wildly imaginative, often nonutilitarian, and invited interpretations of sources, intention and meaning.

Mr. Callas's nonutilitarian sculpture also has these qualities.

In other works, Voulkos created new nonutilitarian forms, such as his purely sculptural, large-scale cylindrical "stacks."

One grouping illustrates that folk art stands outside time and place, even though nowadays outsider art is the favored term for nonutilitarian pieces.

Nonutilitarian pleasure.

If we consider the nonutilitarian use of corpses by Protestant anatomists, it is difficult to find anything novel or controversial about the Mannheim exhibit.

The nonutilitarian curve of a wrist before it struck an ankle or the subtle rhythmic integration of body and voice did much to elevate their athleticism into art.

"We're trying to convey the fact that in the past, the vessel tradition started with function, but in the contemporary world, the vessel has also become increasingly nonutilitarian, or what we call symbolic.

Other noteworthy acquisitions are nonutilitarian: in a spacious bird cage - the gift of Wintershall AG - bill and coo two parakeets - a gift of the Gerling Corporation.

As the transporter effect wore off, Jim looked around Sempach' transporter room, surprised at its size and its somewhat nonutilitarian look; there was even a small lounge area off to one side, with com-fortable sealing.

Contemporary, nonutilitarian quilts that rather tamely stretch traditional boundaries toward image-making, as in one depicting a peeled orange by Barbara Barrick McKie, or toward Modernist abstraction, as in Rosemary Hoffenberg's Schwitters-esque composition.

A rolling pin drilled full of holes, a cooking pot pierced with geometric patterning, a filigreed coffee table and rugs cut up and collaged into an abstract construction have been retired from domestic service and set on new careers in the nonutilitarian realm of art.

"Answering the Call" is filled with small, satisfying details, like the description of the ash cloud that followed the attacks as "a warm blizzard," and the recollection of one volunteer that many women running from the towers were without shoes - a fact that makes perfect sense, given the nonutilitarian construction of most feminine footwear.