But it wasn’t exactly comfortable: Nixon administration official Henry Kissinger described the space as “uncomfortable, unaesthetic and essentially oppressive.”

At some point it must be learned and held dearly in the people themselves that only in markets can the human spirit find true freedom -- however unaesthetic and boorish that simple human precept may be.

That’s all that mattered in the end to close a day of little offense, long grinds and unaesthetic play.

Such a distinguished history, and yet so unaesthetic!

He argued that women’s sport was “the most unaesthetic sight human eyes could contemplate” and that the games should be reserved for men.