Gourmont
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the Manichean in De Gourmont fabricated its revolting images.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
De Gourmont is a wise man, who, like Socrates and William James, is not afraid to joke, and some of his perversities are uttered with his ironic tongue in his cheek.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
Three critics of wide-reaching influence are dead since the war began: Emile Faguet, Jules Lemaître, and Remy de Gourmont.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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