Huneker

American  

[huhn-i-ker] / ˈhʌn ɪ kər /

noun

1. James (Gibbons) 1860–1921, U.S. music critic and writer.

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Example Sentences

It was around this time that the cultural critic James G. Huneker would write: “All Coney Island reminded me of a disturbed ant-heap, the human ants ferocious in their efforts.”

From New York Times

The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

From New York Times

“Why,” the critic James Huneker asked in 1915, “after the hot, narrow, noisy, dirty streets of the city, do these same people crowd into the narrower, hotter, noisier, dirtier, wooden alleys of Coney?”

From New York Times

Here we see how winning Mr. Huneker's manner is and how insidious.

From Project Gutenberg

"Eye-opening and mind-clarifying is Mr. Huneker's criticism; ... no one having read that opening essay in this volume will lay it down until the final judgment upon Maurice Maeterlinck is reached."

From Project Gutenberg