non-apologetic

Updated: June 6, 2025

When a man leaves out so much of life as Daumier youth and beauty and the charm of woman and the loveliness of childhood and the manners of those social groups of whom it may most be said that they have manners when he exhibits a deficiency on this scale it might seem that the question was not to be so easily disposed of as in the very non-apologetic words I have just quoted.

Henry James - Picture and Text: 1893