disdainer

Updated: May 22, 2025

The large, loosely modelled head with its fleshy curves, its super-subtle mouth of orator, the gaze veiled, the bland, pontifical expression, the expression of the man who spoke of "the mania of certitude" here is Ernest Renan, voluptuous disdainer of democracies, and planner of a phalanstery of superior men years before Nietzsche's superman appeared.

James Huneker - Promenades of an Impressionist

Sheldam trembled at the audacity of her niece whose irony was as much lost on her as it was on the poet. "But you publish plays and books, do you not?" Ermentrude naïvely asked. Madame Kéroulan interposed in icy tones: "Mademoiselle Adams misunderstands. Monsieur Kéroulan is the Grand Disdainer. Like his bosom friend, Monsieur Mallarmé, he cares little for the Philistine public "

James Huneker - Visionaries